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W2JOP .ll'1 ~ It" Editor; FraDk C . JOrH> W 6A J F. J&nte. J
Hill. W 2 JI II. E uaene Blaek, W 2 ESO . O li""r P . Ferrell, n e.!l~l
J . OeUit . W3,\o n . Herb Beeker, W6QD. R. Y. Cha pman. Wt~.
C~"b . HdjJar. ; E velyn A. Eillenbel"l. Edit . P"od. \I,,r.

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DECEMBER, 1946

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S I Il P JIoU ::'iT (ro m C H ICAGO o r AT L A:"JT A.

COVER .
Great circle maps have been d rawn on but a
few of the larger centers of population in the
United States. DX men living outside these
areas are well acquainted with the problem of
p roperly orienting a beam. Modifying a
world globe in to an effect ive grea t circle
direct ion ind icator is outlined in "7IDF's
story " Laying A Beam On t he T arget. "
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A C- W Man 's K ilowat t
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Sporadic F..-A Problem for Am ateu r Research
Olit'a P. FerreU
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Lnylng a Beam on t he T arget
Edwin K . Cole, W7I D It'
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The Magie KC.O.
Bob R yon, JV7GIVA
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N.J. Hoggerty. W6J.\f/
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Mont hly DX P red ictions- Decembe r
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UHF
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The Y L's Frequency
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Parts a nd Products
42
Let ters
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Ad vertising Index
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<Xl I \}.IS and 1946 Index
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Public Service

amateur bands immediately upon their release by

the ~I ilitary, if they were returned on exactly t he
Once again an instance of amateur public service is
same basis ee t hey existed at the time t hey were
reported in 8 widely eirc uleted Associated Press
taken o ver, provided thut immediate restoration of
dispa tch. On November 4th an u nusually seve re
these freq uencies to t he amateur service would be in
sno w storm in New Mexico d isrupted transpo rtation
and trapped nearly 300 motorists on t he open h igh- the public interest and would not adversely affect
t he interest of any party or group. Only because t he
~ny '; Dale L. Hauck, WdVAX, with a mobile rig
F.C.C. recognized t he controversial nature of t he
In his car was among the stranded motorists.
A
recommendations made by the generally accepted
distress call was 8icked up by Paul L. Hughes,
W8 UIL, Canton, hio, who in turn worked Foy A. spokesman for U. S. amateurs and could legally
postpone a hearing on the question ofphone-c.w. eubRoger, \v5nGV, in Albuquerque. N ew ~I exioo .
W5HG" promptly notified the New Mexico state d ivisions within t he amateurs banda, was it possible
to have t he rest of t he bands returned immediately.
police. A rescue party was under way t wenty-six
A t th e international conference we believe
minutes after the fi rst call for assistance.
t he best plan is
Ano th e r recent
case we have heard
to request that amabout is of an Ohio
ateur frequencies be
ham who came upon
assigned solely on
a serious automobile
the basis of occuacciden t on the
pancy by amateur
Ito all our reaners
r 0 ad . AMistance
stations with no refp r omp tl y sumerence whatsoever
moned to a releto subdivisions. The
quest ion of s u b t ively isolated spot
divisions should be
is credited With
saving the lives of
settled between amanb
several victims.
ateurs of all countries alter the next
Ama teurs should
international conmake it their busiference to be held
ness to call such
during the summer
examples of public
of 1947. A protracservice to t he attention of thelocal press
ted wrangle between
American factio ns
as well 118 the ham
publications. Wide publicity for ama&ur contribuwill involve amateurs in all other countries who
tions to public welfare can aid immeasurably in
might face great difficulties under certain conobtaining additional support from legislative ditions that might be established solely to meet
egencree.
the situation in the United States.
We have
said before that this question must not degenerate
Phone~C.W. Subdivision
into a factional dispute.
Editorial comments concern ing the equitable
Narrow Ban d FM
division of a mateur freq uency allocations have, as
expected, aroused considerable interest. Pa rtieana
I n t he postwar period, CQ was the first publicaof both principal forms of emission have advanced
tion to re-introduce narrow band F ~I to the amateur. While not new to ham radio, the editors of CQ
arguments for each case. But, in general, the feeling
that a referendum among U. S. amateurs is the fair- felt that narrow band F ~ I warranted far more attention than it had been given. The interest shown by
est way to settle this question, seems to prevail.
Overlooked entirely by us when discussing foreign
our readers, followed by the increasing prominence
lhone Q U.:\I in t he c-w bands is the fact that per- given to narrow band F .:\I t hroughout the field , has
ia ps t he biggest offenders are G. I. operated sta- substantiated t hese beliefs.
t ions abroad. Foreign a mateurs have made t he
Now t he Federal Co mmunications Commission
point t hat t hey object principally to the rela ti vely
has granted special limited a uthority to a small
high power run by the G. I. stations in comparison group of amateurs to test narrow band FM on frequencies previously restricted to AM _. in other
with their own national restrictions. However, t hese
words on 20 and 75 meter phone. Tests will also be
objections merely point up the need to create D X
re-gions for phone operations as well as c.w. Now conducted using frequency shift telegraphy. CQ is
that the remaining frequenc ies have been opened,
privileged to participate in these tests. E very effort
perhaps t he condition may stabilize itself in a satis- will be made to evaluate t he relative merit of narrow
band F M as compared with con ventional AM. Testa
factory manner.
under all types of operating condit ions a re being
Desirability of retaining the stat us quo u nt il a
referendum on the question can be carried out is conducted and extensive reports will be made to all
sharply emphasized by a recently enacted law, t he a mateurs 88 well 88 the F.e.C. T he economy of
Administrative Procedure Act. I t is understood that Darrow band F ~I may be overshadowed by more
within the meaning and inten t of t he act, the F.C.C. efficient use of existing frequencies. It is toward t his
could legally return t he remaining portions of the
end tbat the tests are being cond ucted.

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MODEL 800
RECEIVER
MODEL 800 144-148 and 23.'>-240
mea. U.H.F. receiver. E. P. T ilton's
Feb. 1946 QST design modified to
Byron Goodman's inductive d . tuning,
built-in PM speaker, 88" band-sp read.
all in new " ATOM-X" construction,
Factory built or kit for easy home construction, compact.

MODEL 700
TRANSMITTER
MODEL 700 xtal controlled t ransmitter. 144-148 and 235-240 mea. 6AQ5
Tritet drives 604 doubler, 604 doubler(tripler, 832 longline push-pull fi nal.
Built-in 14 watt 6AQ5 push- pull voice
modulator. New "ATOM-X" construction, size only 5" x 10" x 57,i".
Matches MOD EL 800. Makes seriou s
home-stat ion or mobile rig, Factory
built or ki t.

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hicb4. es traonlinary mecha nical a nd

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WJeful to beyond 500 mepeyclellor t rimmi n. 01' t uni nc.
a new air-dieleetrio capacitor' is no w aTailable.
I~ than o~baU inch in diameter. 1. . than 1-7 /16"
ill J~. SIL VE R Model GU~ capacitor providea 3 to 30
mmfd. with air and hid! q ualit y ceramic iDilulation.
R.otor aDd Ita tor' are one piece. low inductance. multi ple
aluminum eu~ Rotor m.m.nc with ltat.ol' dVM a
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ways a winner!

Collins 310A Exciter

Collin s 30K Tra ns m itte r

RELIABLE - The Collins 30K is designed to give continuous sat isfa ct ory se rvice o n the a mat e ur bands.
When you want to go on the a ir,
just throw the switch. The compo-n ents utilized in the 3 0 K a re rugged
a nd long lastin g. They are built to
back you up when the DX sta rts
com ing through.
EFFICIENT and CONVENIENT -

The

30 K is d es igned specifica lly for a mateurs. It utilizes modern circuits and

wartime e le ctr oni c d evelopments.
It's easy to operate. The 310A
e xciter is pla ced r ight on the o pera ti ng de sk. PTa (permeability tuned
oscillator) con t rol gives y ou accurate direct reading frequency control. The 30K is ra ted a t 500 watts
input on cw or 375 watts on phone.
ATIRA CTIVE-

Bot h t ransmitter a nd

e xciter a re fin ished in St. J ame s

gray. You'll be proud of their up-todate, pl e a sing appeara nce. The y will
give a profe ssio nal look- and performa nce -to your ha m shack.

FOR RESULTS IN AMATEUR RADIO, IT'S

There a re several m ore rea sons

why the 30K is a winner. F or
instance, the PTO is accu rate to
within 2 k c on twenty m ete rs. a nd
the a u d io circu it con tains a speech
cl ip p er for m ore effective m odulation. We su ggest that y ou write
for a n illustrated d escriptiv e bulle tin. The 30K a nd 3 10A come
compl ete with tubes a nd intercon necti ng cab le.

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pow~' to pecvlde rcliabl~ sberthaul comm unications. Under good
conditions OX i. entirely possible.

LLOYD V . BRODERSON, W6CLV '

OSCILLATOR-TRANSMITTER
A one tube a.c/d.c transmitter ideal for the new amateur
is a practical SOmeter lowpowered midget rig that will enable the uewcomer to occupy his chosen frequency quickly
and economically.
Neat and compact, the miniature five-wetter

H IS TRANSMI'ITER

may be duplicated in iIB entirety without access

to machine shop or engineering laboratory. With
a little judicious planning, its cost can be kept
surprisingly low.

ing and loading is simplified by capacitive

coupling.
The 117L7GT may be replaced hy any of the
"117" series, all of which have similar charac-

teristics. Slight changes in socket wiring will be

necessary, however, because the base connections
of substitute tubes are not indentieel.

Construclion

Circuit

T he entire unit is mounted on a rectangular

aluminum chassis measuring 272" high by 5J{"

Figure 1 is an elementary circuit employing a

117L7GT tube as a tetrode crystal oscillato r and

long by 3" deep. These may be ohtained at

reasonable cost or may easily be duplicated from

half-weve recti fier. Those components usually

associated with higher powered oscillators have

purposely been omitted.

Due to the relatively low voltage employed,

sheet aluminum. While other supporting materials are entirely satisfactory, small gauge
aluminum lends itself admirahly to work of this
nature. Being inherently "soft" it may be drilled

the customary screen dropping resistor becomes

unnecessary. C3, playing a dual role, effectively
by-passes the screen grid to ground and edequately filters the n-o output . Antenna match-

and filed easily. Aluminum also furnishes an

excellent base for crackle-finish and fast drying
enamels, or it may be bulled and polished.
The front panel supports t he keying jack and
crystal. Antenna feed-t hru insulat or and a-c

St4le Dept. 0/ AqricuUure, SacramenUJ, Calif.

rubber grommet are mounted on the rear panel,

December, 1946

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Fig. 2. Layout diagram for placement of eempcnents.

Dimensions are not critical and serve only as guide.

while the on-off toggle switch occupies the center

posit ion on the right end apron. Coil and tube
mounted. above deck for accessibility, complete
the unit mechanically.
T he layout diag ram (Fig. f) and under chassis
view clearly show t he placement of pa rts. All
loads are run d irect to their connecting points.
Wh ile right-angle Lends and cable lacing may
present a pleasing appearance, short, direct connect ions are more practical when wiring a chassis
of such small dimensions.
In keeping with the simplicity of the unit itself, a
half-wave, end-fed (voltage-fed) antenna is capaciti vely coupled to t he plate circu it. It is well to
remember that the total length of a half wave
end fed radiator is measured from its far end to
the point of connection on the plate tank coil.
Antenn as of this type operate on a voltage node;
t herefore its point of entry into the rad io room
should be well insulated.
The antenna coupling condenser, ee, serves
to isolate the high voltage from the antenna
proper. Its capacity, while not too crit ical,
should not be less than 100 I'l'f, and a breakdown
voltage of 500 d.c . is well within the accepted
safety limits.

Theory and Operation

Although not mand atory, a 0-50 rna milliemmeter in series wi t h the oscillator cathode lead to
ground will aid materially in the tuning-up
process . wit h the antenna connected and appro-

12

priate coil snd crystal in place, Cl is varied

until the cathode current is approximately 45
rna. If the signal as checked on a monitor indicates excessive a-c ripple, 0 1 should be varied for
less capacity. When properly loaded , key ing wi ll
be positive and the signal pure d .c. Depending
on commercial line voltage and loading capabilities of the radiator, power input \\;11 normally
run between 4.5 and 5 .5. ....Us .
Wb ile a ground connection is automatically
provided for because one side of t he a-c or d-e
line is already grounded, efficiency can sometimes
be improved by connecting a d ireet ground to the
transmitter. However, there are several factors
to be considered before indiscriminately making
this connection.
If an a-c line is used as a source of power, the
grounded lead may be determined by connecting
a ll O-volt lamp in series with t he transmitter
negative lead and ground. If the lam p docs not
light, it is permissible to ground the transmitter.
Should the lamp light, the a-c plug must first be
reversed before making the ground connection .
I n either case, carefully note in which position the
plug should always be inserted.
I n some instances, when using d-e ma ins, it
,,;11 be foun d that the positive side of the line is
grounded . Should this be the case, it will he impossible to directly ground the transmitter e nd
an r-f ground must be substituted. This may be
a small mica capacity of approximately .002 }.tf
in series with the negative lead of the transmitter
and ground.

Coil and Condenser Data

The SO-meter coil L, consists of 32 turns of
No. 20 enameled copper, close-wound on a 13-2"
diameter form. The antenna coupling condenser
tap is taken off six turns down from the plate end.
In order to conserve space, the plate tuning
condenser, 01, is mo unted within t he tank coil, I. .

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117L7GT serves dual fund ion al cryn.1 oscill.tor and
half wave rediFier.

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Under chassis view of transmitter. Individual pam m.y be readily identified from
pam list in Fig. 1. Short, straight leads are deslreble.

T he condenser shown in t he photograph is an

APC-75 (a ir padder condenser, 75 Illlf)eapahle
of resonating L over the ent ire 3.5 me band.
Although designed for SO-meter operation,
other frequencies may be covered with approp riat e Li e values obtainable from any handbook ,
and suit able crystals.
Five watts represents but a fra ction of the
maximum permissible amat eur power input, but
its capabilities arc endless. Each contact, be it
local or DX, assumes added im portance.
A well designed , low-powered oscillator feeding
an effic ient antenn a is quite capable of out -perfonning a poorly engineered transmitter of much
higher power, cou pled to an inefficient radiator.
Under favorable conditions, fractional power
can be entirely readable ove r great d istances, and ,

if operated with intell igence, will afford the user

many pleasant cuntacts.
Additional miscellaneous parts required for the
one t ube transmitter arc:
Octal socket (Nat ional XC-8).
Coil fonn with inner condenser shelf (Hammarlund S\VF~) .
Coil form socket (National X~).
Crystal socket (To fit type crystal available).
Midget feed t hru insulator (J oh nson 40).
Crystal for desired frequency and band.
A-C line cord and plug.
Spaghetti t ub ing.
Miscellaneous 6-32 hardware.
Rubber grommet for line cord.
(Equivalent parts may he substituted).

SOLAR SlA nc POLARIZAliON

t hroughout the world are investigating the characteristics of the solar radio irequency hiss or static. T he hiss, which sounds
like a greatly intensified version of the thermal
background noise of a good communications receiver, w as discovered during severe ionosphere
storms of the radio signal fadeout type. The
great sunspot group of July 26, 1946 produced
several occasions when the hiss could be heard
wit h great intensity on the frequencies above

CI E S T ISTS

Decembe r, 1946

50.0 me. During these daylight bursts the hiss

was recorded on a frequency of 200.0 me at Canberra, Australia by the Commonwealth Observatory. D. F . .M artyn has reported in a recent
issue oC Nature that the hiss is a definitely polarized wave Cront. T he accompanying illustration
depicts the arbitrary signal intensity on a special
v-h-f receiver using 8. rotatable Yagi beam antenna. It win be seen in the graph that when the
IContinlUd on page 81)

13

R.C SUPERHETERODYNE

for I 1/4 and 2 Meters

FRANK C. JONES, W6AJP

Ease af construction, alignment and tunin g, at low cost, makes

the roc superhet a good bet after many years of proven use

superheterodyne receiver in various forms has been used

since the early days of five-met er band operation more than ten years ago. T he writer designed a simple autodyne converter, peaked r-e
amplifier and second detector receiver for that
purpose to use in place of super-regenerative receivers. This type of receiver caused much less
radiation interference and was often more sensitive than the super-regenerat ive sets.
The H i to 2-metor (250 to 130 me) receiver
shown in the circuit diagram and photographs has
been in service for several years wit h various circuit modifications built int o it from t ime to t ime.
T he present system has a modified cathode-follower oscillator-detector, several stages of peaked
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tOSl Duranl Ave., Berkeley 4, Calif.

r-c circuits and a balanced r-c discriminator fo r

~ l reception The latter becomes an ordinary
AM detector by switching ott one diode detector.
The selectivi t y is much better than with a superregenerative detector and it performs in a manner
similar to any standard superheterodyne receiver
except that no attempt has been made to eliminate the image signal. In other words, there are
t wo spots on the dial about one degree apart
which produce recept ion on anyone signal. This
occurs because the i-f amplifier is operating below
100 kc. The r-c values between each 6SK7 tube
are set up to peek t he am plifie r at any desired
spot between 30 kc and 100 kc. The value used
in t his set at present is 40 ke, which gives better
selectivity than a higher i-f value but ra ther
poor reception quality of modulated oscillators or
transceivers in the 2-meter band due to the better

Bottom view of receiver. Plac ement of componenb Is not eeltleel,

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The copper tubing coaxial li ne occupies the center of

the receiver chassis. Th e oscillator-detector is mounted
on the polystyrene she lf on the rear of the chassis.

select ivity characteristic. The first detector is of

t he a utodyne type which oscillates weakly, t h us
becoming a very sensitive detector of v-h-f
signals.
Autodyne Detector
T he a utodync detector may be of any ty pc
which will oscillate at t he signal frequency.
Actually this t ube is tuned t o oscillate either
40 kc above or below t he signal frequency. For
example a 2-mctcr signal might be at 146 me or
146,000 kc. T he first detector oscillates at
146,()'10 or 145,960 kc, which arc so close to the
signal freque ncy that nearly full advantage of the
regenerat ion is present if the tube is oscillating
weakly.
T he 0002, a GGl, or a 955 triode may be used
to good advantage as the autodyne detector in a
cathode-follower oscillator. The latter has an
r-f impedance consisting of a 2,500 ohm cathode
resistor in series to ground, with a tuned circuit
connected from grid to ground. The plate is bypassed for d. to ground so the tube acts as a
cat hode-follower oscillator. The 4O-kc heterodyned signal in the pla te circuit is cou pled by an
r-c network into a multistage r-c amplifier. The
9002 acts as a grid-leak detector or mixer as well
as an oscillator.
The capacit y-shortened half-wave concentric
line circuit in the grid of the 9002 tube has a high
Q and is not difficult t o construct. A piece of
l ~-inch diameter copper tubing 9 inches long
serves as the outer-wounded conductor of the
concentric line. A similar length of 5/ 16 " o.d., ]4"
December, 1946

i.d. tubing becomes the grid line. It is held in the

center of the big tube by two polystyrene " washers" about ~" thick. A piece of 7.t" diameter
brass rod extends through t he smaller tube and
becomes a tuning control shaft . One end is
coupled to the d ial t hrough a ceramic shaft
coupler and the other end has a semi-circular oneplate rotor on it. T he stator consists of one plate
over half of t he end of the large tube with about
1/ 20" air gap between the rotor and stator plates.
Connection to the 0002 grid has to be made to
the S
f re inch tube just in back of the rotor plate.
If the usual grid coupling condenser of 50 I'l'f is
left out as in this set , the antenna "hair-pin" loop
should have its center tap grounded or a pair of
small resistors connected to ground to prevent
c-o hum from modulating the desired signals.
A band-setting condenser of 5 or 6 Ililf minimum to 75 or 100 maximum is connected across
the other end of the half-wave circuit. T he
17.'l.meter band is ncar minimum capacity setting
and the 2-meter near 2/ 3 of maximum with this
condenser. This method of band-setting has tho
advantage of not reducing the tuning condenser
frequency range nearly as much as in a quart er\""8 V C line in which both condensers are at one
end. Apparently, single section condensers function satisfactorily in this circuit as no trouble has
been in evidence from "ground contact" noises in
t he rotor shaft bearings. In some types of oscillators, a split-stator condenser must be used with
t he rotor floating and one stator grounded t o
avoid introducing extreme noise into t he oscillntor-detectc r when varying the tuning control.
IF AmpliAer
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peaked at various values , from 30 kc to 150 kC J in

d ifferent r-e superheterodyne receivers. It is possible to obtain enough gain with two r-c amplifier
tubes but usually 4 or 5 stages arc desirable in
order to obtain better selectivity in the receiver.
FM reception requires high i-f gain so as to
make the last stage or two act as effect ive limiters
in order to wipe out AM signals and auto-ignition
noise, ' Vhen receiving AM signals, the i-f gain is
reduced by u manually cont rolled potentiometer
in the cathode circuit of t he third and fourth i-f
amplifiers to prevent limiting (overloading) in the
last i-f stage.
The r-c stages were designed by choosing the
grid coupling capacity so it begins to attenuate
frequencies below GO or 70 kc and is down about
3 db (70.7% ) at about 25 ke in each st age. The
plate and grid resistors are effect ively in series
with a generator in making this calculat ion. The
total circuit and tube capacity is in shunt with
the grid resistor, etc., for high frequencies, so a
value was chosen to produce 3 db attentuation at
abou t 65 or 70 ke in each stage. T hese two
characteristics prod uce a eross-over at about
40 ke with a net loss of about 3db at 40 ke and relat ively good attenuation on the side . The total
sh unt capacity needed in this case was about 70
IIIJ . This was obtained by shunt ing a 50 ]jJl{
mica condenser across the tube capacities at the
plate of each 6SK7 i-f tube. T he same design
procedure was used in the triode first detector,
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The FM discriminator has a unique balanced

r-c circuit with two opposing diode rectifiers.
This circuit is balanced to give zero d -e or a-c
voltage out put at the i.f. of 40 ke. The FM signal
swings several k c each side of th is center and
one diode output increases as t he other d ecreases
whenever the carrier signal differs from its center
point of 40 kc. The discriminator character ist ic
can easily be made linear ove r 25 to 50 kc, and by
using a higher i.f., over abou t 200 kc bandwidth .
The r-c circuit consists of a high-pass and a lowpass sect ion with t he center-point at th e center of
the i-f channel. The two r-c slope filters coupling
the last 6SK7 amplifier or limiter to the two reverse connect ed diodes add differentially and the
linearit y is not affected until the frequency becomes so high that the shunt t ube capacit ies begin to affect it. Better discriminator linearity can
be obtained by connecting this r-c circuit to the
output of a cathode follower tube instead of
directly to the plate circuit of the limiter. One of
the 130 I' l'f condensers or one of t he 30,000ohm resistors in this 4-element r-c circuit can be
made semi-variable in order to align the system
to 40 kc. T he other condensers and resistors in
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A C-W Man's
Kilowatt

The complete station iIIt W6EAK

showing the kilowatt amplifier .t the

lehh.nd sIde., The bottom panel I,

the powe' supp ly. Nut ..beve I.
the driver with an HK-54. The top
panel the p.lir of 250TH. in push-pull.

COURTNEY MATIHEWS, W6EAK"

Built by a nd for the DXing cow man, this conservative kilowatt provides
reliability a nd ease of operation. With a pair of 250THs barely blushing in the final, you are assured of a fighting chance on the low end of 20.

F A TlfOUBAI"n DIFFER1': NT am ateurs w ere given

pencil and paper and told to write specifics .

t ions for t heir ideal transmitter it is quite
probable that nine hundred and ninety-nine
d ifferent designs would be forthcoming']. We
reali ze, therefore, t hat t his transmitter to be
d escribed \\;11 net represent the ideal to many
prospective constructors. However, it is our
personal approach to a very involved subject
and is presented with the thought in mind that
others may benefit from our conservative practical
approach.
Undoubtedly, the first decision to be made in
designing any transmitter is the amount of power
to be used in the output stage. Considering the
present avai lability of transmit ting components
at reasona ble costs there is little reason for a DX
man redesigning at anything less t han t he legal
limit -one kilowatt. A critical survey of the
sources of supply generally open to amateurs on
bot h t he East and 'Vest coasts disclosed severa l
tube ty pes that will handle a kilowatt input with
com parutive ease . However, our own past experience had convinced us that t he low C tantaurn element triodes produce excellent results
from a standpoint of reliability, as well as ease of
tone wise guy decided to buy his transmitter.

"+130 Gaim borough A ""., Hollywood 11, Calif.

Decembe r, 19 46

hand ling. Our final choice of a pair of 250TH. will

call for some raised eyebrows among t he proponents of the newer high power pentodes and tetrodes. But, this is not as scandalous 88 it may
first appear for we just naturally prefer triodes
and have a good idea of how to handle tho
critters.

Finol

Ampli~er

Since the ove rall design features of the trammittcr will be dictated mainly by the final amplifier, it will be described first, The 250THa are
used in a conventional push-pull arrangement
with no startling unorthodox departures in circuit design. The schematic of t he final amplifier
appears in Fig. 1. T o reduce the hazard of flashover, the high voltage is fed directly to the rotor
of the plate tank tuning condenser and to the
center tap of the tank coil. With this arrangement only the r-f voltage appears across the condenser since there will be little d ifference between
the d-e potentials on the rotor and stators.
Fig . $ and Fig . S perform the duty of the immortal ten thousand words by picturing the general layout of the high power components. The
plate tank condenser is mounted in an inverted
position and in the interest of push-pull symmetry, is lined up paraUcI to the front panel. This
necessitates a right-angled offset drive from the

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the e-w man's kilow.tt using

lront panel. This drive assembly is visible on the

extreme right end 01 the condenser and eonsists
of a pair of one-to-one bevel gears and a universal
shalt. These were acquired at a war surplus sale
lor 25 cents and were originally intended to t urn
some inaccessible gadget on an airplane. The
tank coil and swinging coupling link assembly
are mounted directly on the frame 01 the condenser and 80 positioned that the ends 01 the coil
are directly opposite the tube plate connections.
T he actual base 01the 250THs is t wo inches helow
the chassis level. t hereby greatly reducing t he
length 01 the plate leads. One 01 t he neutralizing
condensers ean he seen just behind the flexible shalt
amplifier chassis in Fig. S. These are homemade
from sheet aluminum and the top plate 01 each
neutralizing condenser is bolted directly to the
assoclated stator section 01 the plate tank tuning
condenser. The lower plates of the neutralizing

condensers are mounted on 2" standoff insulators

and can he rotated lor adj ustment. The plate
r-I choke is not visible in Fi g. S, but is located on
a standoff insulator directly between the two
tubes.
Symmetry is preserved as much as possible

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below the chassis. as can he seen in Fig. S. The

.01 1'1 2500 volt filament by-pass condensers are
mounted alongside 01 the 250TH sockets. The 10
meter grid coil is in place. A 9O-degree offset
flexible drive is used to tune the grid condenser.
The wiring is mostly 15,OOO-volt automob ile
ignition wire while 16 copper buss is used in t he
filament leads 01 the 250THs.

Driver Stage
The push-pull 250THs require more drive than
some of the newer tetrodes, This did not prove
to be an exceptional problem as it is possible to
operate our driver from the same power supply
as the final amplifier. The HK-54 was finally
chosen, although the 35-T G will perform equally
as well. Either 01 these only require 10 to 12
watts from the exciter and once neutralized need
no further adjustment when changing bands.
The wiring schematic of the driver stage is in
Fig, 4. The circuit is conventional and the stage
is complete with a separate bias supply mounted
on this chassis. The topside layout can he seen
in Fig. 5. The filament transformer in the lower
righthand corner also supplies the filaments 01 the

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out for a conservative kilowatt. The: unlve rsel drive and the: one-to-on e: bevcl drive:
control the: plate: tank conden ser from the: front panel . Fig . 3 (right). Bottom view
showing mounting of the 250TH sockets below chassis level. The ad justable grid
resistor is mounted on the: right hand cha ssis wall. Th e 10 meter grid coil is In use

250THs in the final amplifier. The 5Z3 rectifier

and bias power transformer are in the lower lefthand comer. Since the major portion of the
weight of the chassis is on the side containing the
t wo transformers, a metal strap runs from the
rear of the chassis to the top of t he panel to give
extra support. The plate tuning condenser, the

r-f choke and the plug-in coil arc mounted on the

opposite comer of this chassis. The neutralizing
condenser for the 11K-54 is directly below the
10 meter coil in Fig. 5. It is also homemade and
consists of t wo pieces of sheet aluminum 1 ~" x
1" mounted on small pillar standoff insulators.
The length of t he insulators is such that the
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Fig. 5 (I~ft). Layout 01 the driver 1t'9c. The meters reed the driver plate current and
the driver grid current. Fig. 6 (right). Layout of the driver slaSt: utin, en HK-54. The
blade cable le.ding off to the left is the co,"",x coupling to the final amplifier.

plates are spaced by approximately three-eighths

o( an inch . The black lead to the left is the
52 ohm co-ax (RG8U) cable feeding the driver
stage to t he final amplifier.
T he arrangement under the driver ch&88UJ is
pictured in Fig . 6. A large U shaped aluminum
bracke t at the left center serves as a solid support
(or the HK-54 tube socket and the associated
filament by-pass condensers which are not visible. At the top of Fig . 6 are the parts comprising
the driver grid circuit. These include the tuning
condenser, bandswitch, coil (only 10 meter one
mounted), coupling link (rom exciter and byp8B8 condenser. Due to the practicability of
using an 803, 813, 203A, 35T or 35TG as a driver
we allowed considerable latitude in space for
mechanical changes and for variations in the

grid current bleeder. Tbe unorthodox bleeder

connections (or the bias supply (Fig. 4) permit
the current carrying capacity of the portion in
use (or grid current to be doubled. T he preferred
arrangement would probably be separate hcavy
duty bleeder resistora.

Powe, Supply
T he power supply requirements of the t ransmitter are fairly simple since both driver and
final amplifier stages operate at the same plate
voltage and there is no necessity of separate
screen supplies . In actual operation a power SU~
ply delivering approximately 2150 volts under
load at about 500 mils was employed. As shown
in the power supply schematic Fig. 7, a bridge
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Fig.8 (left). Topside of bridge type recliAer for the kilow.tt amplifier. The Alament
tt.nJormers Ife in the eentee with the bleedee resistors in the relf. Fig . 9 (right).
The underside of the power supply ch.ssis. The two 8 mfd oil filled filtering con.
densell arc mount.d ~with I.rge aluminum U shaped brackets.

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SPORADIC E
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The question of short-skip on the v-h -f bonds should be a problem of interest
to many amateurs. How is Sporad ic E formed and what can be done to
solve this riddl e? A possible experimental program is shown which will indirectly aid oth er scie nce s, including meteorology and astronomical physics.
OLIVER P. FERRELL

activity is now under

the a bnormal stimulus of the post-war ern.
Scarcely a week goes by without mention of
cue field of radio technology or another, wherein
amateur radio has made some notable contribution. However, much of this work has dealt
principally with the broader aspects of these
random subjects. But, today the calibre of the
ra dio amateur is the highest in its entire history.
Because of this fact , many amateurs will attempt
ttl use their hobby as an experimental platform
upon which they \1,;11 be able to construct and
test "pet" ideas gleaned from t he erratic research
period of World War II.
Along with these amateurs seeking to improve
il E REALlI OF AMATEUH

Propagation Editor

receivers and transmitters will be many who have

had an opportunity to see at first hand the flimsy
status of our working knowledge of the ionosphere. It is to the bet tennent of the hobby and
to radio communication that these amateurs
align themselves with an experimental program
which, through the reporting of v-h-f short-skip
contacts to responsible investigators, will enable
a careful study of thecumulativeetTectaofsporadic
E (E,). Because the frequencies above 30.0 me
are almost entirely utilized for ground-wa ve
services the effects of E. are most easily recognized. Of particular importance is t he assignment
of t he new 50-54 me band. Thorough examination
of t he record ed number of DX contacts via
B, should provide R picture of t he number of

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POlition s of the cloud conespond to Figs. i and 4 on the maps.

December, 1946

21

PointsJof incidence for single hop transmission with virtual heighb 110-120 Icm ., June 5,1938, between, Fig.2
(right) 173().1800 EST, Fig. 3 (center) 1815-1845 EST, Fig. 4 (I. ft) 1930-2000 EST.

hou rs that t he vertical incidence of E~ exceeds 15

IIlC (for a 55-60 mc ski ll), a basic quantity now
employed by the National Bureau of Standards
a nd similar agencies. Eventually when sufficient
in fcrn ut icn on the effects of E. have been obtnim d it n ay become possible to further ascert uin tke rdationship with the sunspot cycle.

The apparent drifting through the ionosphere is

an interesting but not an ent irely new tJICOI) .
Ivo Ranzi , t he famous Italian radio experimenter,
proposed a similar effect in 1932 to account for
the unusual ionosphere reflections obtained during certain meteorological conditions. Later
Eyfrig in Gennany set up t wo ionosphere sounding stat ions several hundred miles apart. In this
Whit We Know About E.
manner Eyfrig found that the E. area would
Unli ke the normal ionosphere which may be appear ~ t o 3 hours later and disappear I to 27.1"
attribut ed t o certain ultra-violet rays from the hours earlier when passing from one st at ion
S UIl, t he cat se of E, today is unknown. At presto the other.
In the United States, Mimno and Pierce cstient, it "odd appear that E. is the result of a
corpuscular radiation from the sun. However, mated the vertical thickness of the E. a rea to 1)('
ugnin unlike the normal ionosphere there is little less than 5 or 6 km and since the latera) distance
e vidence to su pport t his hypot hesis. Somet imes to the area is a funct ion of time, the E, pat ch
the sporadic E short-skip is accompanied by might truly be termed a type of cloud. TIll')" also
br'illiat.t aurora, at other times the short-skip is found that t he E. cloud or mass drifted in the E
pn sent "in out affecting in t he least any of t he region of tbe ionosphere. Wilson, WIDEI in h is
excellent paper summarizing amateur v-h-f propaother geomapnetic clements ' .
T n tf-e an.atcur, experimenter or physicist E. gation expressed the belief t hat the E. cloud was
appears as a patch or confined area of very high like a disturbance whore speed was apparent ly
cit. ctron d( nsity 110 km above the earth's surface. constant, but whose direction was continually
Early in t l.e history of the ionosphere it was con - changing.
[ect un d that E, was related to the run-away
Because of the limited vert ical thickness of the
electrons prcducr d by thundershowers . However, E, cloud, radio signals must undergo an almost
a direct correlation has never been found , for complete reflection. This has been accounted
where E. was 01:8('1 y( d there were no thunder- for by t he very rapid rise in the density of t he E.
storms (or l.undrrds of miles, and conversely in cloud.
areas whr re t here were innumerable thunderThcseE, clouds have been found to occuronlyin
storms litt le E. was observed. Recently, once a very narrow region of the ionosphere, since few
again Swedish scient ists have proposed the observations have locat ed true E, clouds above
t hu ndershower correlat ion, but have added that 120 Ian or below 105 krn. The factors of density
it may be possible t hat t he patchy condition of and height in the ionosphere are the determinant s
E, will drift in the ionosphere to areas where of t he length of t he ski p zone. Assuming the con th ere arc no thu nderstorms.
stancy of height and t he maintenance of a densit y
sufficient to reflect 6 meter signals, any variations
'Continuous measurements of the earth's mag- in the length or direction of the skip must , t here-netic field are made (or t he vertical and horizontal
intensity end the declination, The aurora will dis- fore, be due to a motion of t he reflecting E,
turb these elements sharply, ' producing t he iono-- clouds.
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EDWIN K. COLE. W7IDF

A simple sure-fi re me thod for determ ining grea t circle directions

fro m any lacation anywhe re. The tric k is to modify an ordinary
globe as outlined by W7IDF, who got the ide o fro m well -known
DX'er eEl AO. One of these globes is illustra te d on the cover.
is like pointing a gun. True,
a blest of rJ. wide of the mark may still bring '
some results; a miss is not necessarily as good
as a mile, but it will frequently break up an innocent QSO. Laying a beam right nn the target is
good operating and works to everyone's advantage.
To do this, you must use t he great circle bea ring from your antenna to that of the old boyan
the other end.
Great circles can be easy . Spherical trig is the
hard way ; shorter approaches such 88 Drelsonstok, Ageton, H. O. 214, 218, etc., are comproU1 i~ . For our purposes, the practical solut ion
is a cinch .
In fact, this particular cinch will solve your
Jl;rt'at circle problems as fast 88 you can twirl a
globe, and without computation . .. wit hout
anything exce pt a finger for twirling purposes
and a globe.
Chain drug stores, (or a lead, sell twelve-inch
world globes for $2.50 to $3.00, and it should n't
concern a DX hound if t he national boundaries
be somewhat pre-war. So you've got a globe.
You will notice that the north end of the axis
is supported by a metal arc pivoting both poles.
If your globe is like most, t his arc will be cellbrutcd in degrees of latitude, increasing from
zero at the equator to ninety at each pole. And
if you pull gently a nd firmly on the north end of
the arc it should be easy to slip t he globe free.
T ry it.

WI XGI XG A BEAM

Mounting Chlnge.
Now, if you're in an honest mood, you will
admit t hat, in a manner of spea king, the world
revolves around that little old DX machine of
yours. Fix it that way. Drill a hole t hrough t he
globe at a point representing t he electrical center'
of your hideout. Drill another hole directly
opposit e this, accurately spotted 80 that the
Jr;lobe ",'ill revolve evenly on this new axis. Pop
88 1 S:~

sc, N . E., Sealll< 6,

December, 1946

w..h. .

the world back int o the frame, but with the

north end of the arc centered on your antenna,
and the south end in t he opposite hole. If you
rotate t he globe now, you will see that it is sim ple
to align the arc with any DX target on the planet,
and note t hat by doing so you establish a great
circle track from your location t o t hat of t he DX
station.
T he next step is to provide a means of marking
the great circle " initial course." At the center of
the arc where "0" fonnerly marked the equator
press the point of a pencil against the globe's surface and slowly rotate the globe. In this manner
a new " equator" will be constructed. :-;ow adjust
the globe so that t he geographic north pole io
placed directly under the arc. where the arc now
crosses your private "equator" make a mark and
name this "North". Rotate the globe again 50
that the geographic south pole is placed under
the arc and, similarly, make a mark and name
this point on your equator "South."
With the glnbe in this last posit ion-s-that is,
with " South" directly under the arc, measure the
distance on the new equator from the "Sout h"
point around to the left to the " North" point ;
mark the half-way point " West ." Re pent t his
procedure, but from "South" around to the right
and name the midpoint "East." You now have
four points-want to try for eight ? Bisect each
of the quadrants developed above and establish
"S.\V.", " N.' V.", "S.E." and " N.E.JJ There are
thirty-two points to the compass, and plenty of
room for all of them.
If you prefer, it would be equally simple to use
degrees instead of compass points. Divide the
constructed equator into 3130 equal divisions and
name each by counting clockwise from your
"North" point, zero through 359,

U.ing the Globe

T hat 's all there is to it. When you want to nail
a new country. rotat e the globe until t he DX is
under the arc; reud the direction where the arc
lCon/inued on _
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BOB RYAN, W7GWA

a lut of talk for and against

the electron coupled oscillator since its rebi rth in t he QR~I filled amateur ba nds . You
call tnke eitl.er side a nd find plenty of ha ms to
8J!;N ,,(' wi th you.
T his story is writt en about an ingenious ham
who b uilt one of t he t hings all by himself.
Arlow was his name, and his call isn't important
t o the story . He wee a young, glassy-eyed fellow
with an ext reme ewe of acute radio-mania, and
you could hear him every night on almost any
broadcast receiver. People, in fact, thought he
ll f: IU: HAS 1I1: t-::-;

was one of the characters on the Lux Radio

Theatre, so often did his voice appear when they

listened to that program. The neighbors knew
him as llCQ ) GO" , and affectionately called him
that whenever he surprised them at night trying
to saw down his antenna pole.
Arlow was a fine amateur engineer, and all by
himself designed an e.c .o. 'wit h, of all things, a
bandspread dial that would enable him to accurately control the movement of his frequency
wherever he decided to move . . . he said .
Short ly after the e.c.o. went into operation, the
neighbors discovered that "CQ 160" was not
only on t he Lux R ud ie T heatre, but appeared as
a guest artist on other programs too. T hey
formed the S . O. P . S. (T he Secret Order of Pole
Sa wyers) a nti held meetings on Monday nights in
the schoolhouse to decide who would be chosen
to saw down CQ If)()'s antenna pole. I t was a job
none of them really wanted, because Arlow had
slyly placed high voltage signs everywhere within
sawing distance of the pole.
Arlow was very happy with his new e.c.o., that
he built all LJy himself. \\' ith it in operation, he
was able to get out from under anybody's kw
carrier. The FCC even noticed that he could
move right out of the bend with it, and sent him
a letter congrat ulat ing him on his flexibility.
Xow .. . not far from Arl ow's shack , t here
lived a young lady ham. She was to be heard
n ight ly on the band, and her rich , pleasant modu la t ion sent warm tremors into the young male
ham's r-f sect ion. 1\0 evening was complete without a QSO with I rme t ru de, the lady ham.
Arlow called I nna t rude many times, but she
talked to him rarely. lie felt that perhaps she
was snubbing him. The truth of the matt er lay
in the quality of Arlow's modulated signal. You
see, Arlow made his microphone with his own
-soe t n Apt_ N., Staltk t l, Wa"h.

hands , a ll by himself. He ca lled it lovingly, ti le

magi c ear, beca use he had read in CQ once of the
magic eye. Irmatrudc t hought perhaps it was.. a
magic nose when she heard its effect on t he ether.
Arl ow didn't know a bout this lack of fidelity.
however. Ill' had never bothered to list en to his
own signal. lie knew he was modulating, beca use
the fi nal plate current met er swu ng wildly whenever he ta lked.
After careful thought regarding Irmatrude, t he
lady ham , Arlow decided that the only way to get
a QSO with the YL was to use his ingenuity, a
doubtful quality in this case, to be sure. He
turned on the beat oscillator of the receiver, took
off the antenna, and turned on his e.c.o.
lie noticed that his note was a little rough .
Distinctive, he thought, and smiled. H e moved
his hand ncar the tuning condenser of the e.c.o.
The signal vanished . He found it up at the other
end of the band.
He moved the c-e-o dial carefully, and noted a
pleasant change of pitch .
Suddenly . .. a brilliant idea carne into being
in the young hum's mind. H e tuned t he (' .C .O . a
little in the other direction. Another plcusaut
pitch chango. He grubbed his clarinet and u piece
of paper,
After wetting t he reed, he blew open G on the
woodwind . Then he carefully synchronized his
e.c.o. unt il the note was G . H e wrote the c-e-o
dial setting on the piece of paper. He blew other
notes and matched them with the e.c.o., being
careful to writ e down the dial settings of each
corresponding note of the scale. lI e paused
briefly from this very scientific task , and opened
the window of the shack to let the smoke out .
Have t o get a new power transformer, h e thought.
Under the table was a pile of sheet musi c. He
dug through it hastily. Determination was written on his face. H is glassy eyes sparkled with a
new light. He looked under the receiver, and up
on the shelf and finally discovered the sheet of
music he sought. It was in the power supply, insula t in g one of the high voltage leads. He removed it and replaced the insulation with another
less important song.
" N ow," he mused, "for a little practice." He
ca refully looked at his dial setting numbers that
corresponded to the notes of the scale. He noted
that the score was in five sharps, and set his jaw
in det ermination. The line voltage in the neigh.
borhood dipped low as Arlow hit the airlancs with

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his t ransmitter. " Hello, test ," he said, and t he

neighbo rs confirmed his signal under t hei r breaths.
He shut off the transmitter, nnd listened on t he
band . "Nope!" Innatrudc wasn't on this night.
Another stroke of genius. 1Ie ran into the house
and called her on t he telephone.
"Hello ... Inna trude? T his is Arlow. I sure
got a surprise for you. Yea h. Liste n for me on
160. Yeah. Right now . Okay. So long; "
He hung up, a nd ran back to t he rad io shack .
H e listened carefully to t he receiver. His heart
pounded wildly. His blood current rose to several
amps. "There she is," he exulted, a nd as she
sighed her call, he threw the five switches t hat
put him on th e air. Afte r turning down the n --

She returned wit h a throaty . . ." All right A rlow. I t hink your modulation is too heal')' though .
I think you said tum on t he beat oscillator. All
right ... go ahead."
H e beamed as his hand went toward the e.e.o.
He pulled the a ntenna ofT t he receiver a nd short ed out t he antenna coil with a screwdriver . Expertly he tuned for a zero beat in the receiver .
Now! .. . He placed his m usic before him . ..
In Irmatrude's receiver, t hings bega n to happen. Never before had anyone heard a nythin g
like it. The ham band went dead . Receivers
were t uned t o Arl ow. Love was supreme.
On the nirlanes that night, the strains of HI
Love You Truly"
were unm istakably evident.

AT LA''l! x-va aUIL1

'TWAT E .C .O

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ceiver and eliminating the feedback , he called

I nnat rude.
"Go ahead!" he commanded.
The receiver uttered unbelieva bly rich tones,
88 I nnat rude responded to t he caU. " You're
coming in fine, Arlow," she said .t'Your m odul at ion is too heavy, though . Go ahead with your
test." She signed it over to him.
Again, the five swi tches clicked , and Arlow was
on the air. " T urn your beat oscillator on ," he
gasped . " Corne in, please,"

December, 1946

For a n encore, he play ed " If I had to do it again,

I 'd do it ell over for you ."
If you were to visit Arlow now, you would find
him sitting in his bare gray room, his glassy eyes
fixed on t he magic e.c.o. lying in t he corner of the
cell. Only five more years of the t en remain, and
then freedom and the problem of finding ten
thousand dolla rs for the government.
lnnatrude giggles when she thinks of him.
HOh, the siUy boy," she laughs.

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R. J. HAGERTY, W6JMI'

many of us have had some

experience with lightweight hollow wooden
masts. They were marvels of simplicity and

URI NG THE WAR

for a given amount of weight we know of no other

mast that approaches it in strength. The seeret
of this mast is the hollow type of const ruct ion
with joints so spaced that strains and stresses
within the st ructure are evenly. distributed, It
has other advantages too, such 88 being easy on
the pocketbook and easy to assemhle. Ours cost
less than $6.00 including wood, nails, putty and
paint. \Ve were able to make it up and give it one
coat of paint in the first afternoon .

The ideal wood to use is fir, but inasmuch 88

none W88 available we chose hemlock. It is very
important to have a straight grain-s-one that
runs the entire length of each piece and not one
that runs out at the sides. The lengths from
which the mast is constructed must be of identical
\\;dth and thickness. The lumber yard can run
'11 14 B_lu Dri.., San GabrVl, Calif.

through a planer so that all lengths will he

uniform and all will have their edges squared .
The main pieces for the hollow mast are dressed
to ~" by 23-i", thus making .8. mast of 37.(" square
outside dimensions and a hollow inside opening
of 1 ~" square running the entire length of the
mast. Incidentally, the hollow core makes an
excellent place to run co-ex cable or twin-lead
feed lines. For a 40 foot mast 8 pieces 20 feet in
length are required. Refer to Fig. 1 where the
four sides G, 1I, J and K are shown. Four of the
20 foot sections are used as is. Two arc sawed off
at the 15 foot mark, leaving two 5 foot pieces.
The last two lengths are sawed in half, leaving four
10 foot lengths.
The sides of the mast are joined as shown in
Fig. lA. There is now 8. maximum of two joints
in each side and these are 20 feet apart. On ad joining sides the closest joint "ill be 5 feet away
and on opposite sides diametrically-c-it is 10
fect between joints. Spacing in this manner adds
immeasurably to the overall strength and rigidity
of this mast. But t-joint ing the sides gives additional strength besides making a much smaller
cross-section. It is best to usc a quick-d rying glue
along each joint length-wise on the mast and nail
every 12" with 2" finishing nails. This makes the
inside core of the mast watertight and weatherproof.
The easiest and quickest method of assembling
the mast is to first nail the 15 foot seetion of H
to the bottom 20 foot section of G; next, the 10
foot section of K to the 15 foot section of H and
then the 5 foot section unto K . Now in the same
order add all 20 foot lengths and finally fasten in
all top remaining sections in reverse order. All
edges of the mast should be rounded 01T with a
plane for ease of handling and offering the least
wind resistance. One or two coats of outside
paint will be necessary alter the undercoat. The
result is a DlS8t that is strong enough to support
almost any type beam, but is flexible enough to
give in very strong winds and yet will not break,
warp or buckle.
The mast itself can be put up by one person
provided the anchor points and the guy wire! are
t hem

Fig. 2. Hollow type mast lupportlng

10.metcr beem

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Fllj. 1. (A) The hollow type m.st consists of 8 lengths 01 iO foot x 3/4-. Jl itA.:.. su.isht ,J.in wood. Each ,ide h
only two joints, while .djoinin, side, eed Joints .fC only 5 fut 'p.lrt. Di.mctrical.ssisned Joints IITC 1 Oint 'p.lrL

This pt'o'lidcs grc.l~ strength fOJ the wcilj!hL The method of ,ucmblin9 the mast is described in the texL ( 8) Th.
to.p view shows the location 01 the braces. Len,ths A. .nd 8 an b. used to hold. fixed two .Iement be.m
(l.) Closeup of the boxed reinforced construction oS the Junction point of the three braces. 0 is in two pieces
while C .nd E .r. suitably notched for Rush mounting. The top .nel bott:)!JI of box i. m.d. of 5 ply plywood.
The .Ide, of the box .r. mitered piece. 01 :JA'" I: 11A '" wood. The feed through insul.tors .r. option.l,
but provide. foolproof method for feeder line cr05SQYct.

.rr.y.

measured beforehand with a (air amount of accuracy. The first step is t o d ig a 2 foot hole near
the spot where the bottom end of the mast is due
t o rest . Fasten all guy wires to the mast and
secu re at least three to their anchor points. Put
a tall ladder under t he top half, take a firm grip
on the Iree set of guys and hoist the mast upright.
Fasten in the last set of guys afte r t he mast is
erected, leaving sufficient slack to lift the mast
out of t he 2 foot hole on to its permanent base.
For guy 'wires we used No. 12 iron "ire with
egg st rain insulators ' about every 10 feet . Although onc set of guys probably wou ld suffice,
two sets were used as faintly visible in Fi g. t. The
set at the halfway point eliminates all tendency
t oward vibration in the mast itself. Do not
fasten the guy " i res to the mast wi th screw eyes.
Rather, insert four brass screws int o t he mast
corners and t hen pass the guy wire completely
around t he mast, fast ening it t o itself, so that the
p ull upon the guy will make it more secure. The
screws prevent the wire from sliding down the
mast .
For a 32 foot mast all measurements in length
can be divid ed by 0.80, while for a 48 foot mast,
it will be necessary to usc 24 foot lengths of wood
for the sides .
In some locations a fixed beam can be used to
good ad vantage. Our mas t was designed part icularly to support a fixed 8JK beam for 10
meters. T he beam frame and mounting platform

December, 1946

are other examples of reinforced hollow construction . The t op view of the basic frame is
shown in Fig. l B, This consists of sides for the
elements A and Band cross braces C, D and E.
All of these are made from ~f/ by IX''' by 8 foot
pieces cut to the length for the correct spacing of
the elements. Braces C and E meet at right
angles and are not ched t o permit a fl ush mounting. Brace D is cut in two lengths and is mitered
to fit at the junction of C and E. A t rial assembly
is made wi th nails, by fastening C, D and E to the
two 18" 3 or 5 ply plywood squares t hat cover
the junctions. This is shown in Fig. I C. H oles
are then drilled through the plywood top and
bottom pieces and through the braces for 2 ~"
length brass belts,
The next step is to cut to length and miter
1 ~" pieces for the sides of the box mounting.
This helps keep the braces in place and makes the
junction water and weatherproof. For final
assembly the edges are coated with quick-drying
wood glue and nailed in place with 1" brads.
The ent ire beam mounting is held in place by
the (our braces shown in Fig. t . A particular
point of interest is the method of setting two set s
of feedthrough insulators through the plywood
box to accommodate the feeder changeover (or
correct phasing of the 8JK. In many beams this is
sloppily done, but as shown in Fig. IC the feeders
are fastened fairly taut with little or no danger
of touching or shorting.

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GRI::AT CIRCLI:: MAP OF

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WORLD

Centered on Washington
The great circle distance from w ashington to any
other point on tbe surface of the globe may be scaled
off d irectlyon this map, using a straight-edge and the
scale of miles shown directly below the map. For
example, Pa nama scales roughly 2000 miles from
Washington. Distances of points from other cities
in the Eastern United States can also be scaled off
directly with sufficient accuracy for most purpose".
To determine d istance in kilometers mult iply miles
by 1.6.

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The great circle direction of any point from Washingtcn may be determined by laying a straight-edge
from Washington to the point whose direction it is
desired to determine. T he point at which the
st raight-edge croseee the numbered circle will give
the direction . Thus, Pa ris, France, lies about 51~
degrees northeast from Washin gton. This is the
second in a series of great circle maps of the world to
be presented . (/ff'produad by P"ffli u i on af the N auy
Department, H ydrographic Office).

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29

- - DECEMBER
OUVER PERRY FERRELL'

Commcnb and Problems

Commenb from the usen of the Band Predictions .re invited and
01 Inlcrnl to CO
and to the IRPL II you h..... lome tr.nsmi...
.ion problem d irectly Involvi ng condition. for
OX.ln, or wlnt to know wh.t would b. the
best I vcra,_ hours for woric in, I certain city
from your loc.ttion you . re invited to write to
the Pro~9 .tion Editor CO Mlg.dne 342

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Madison A ve., New York 11, N. Y. Please

enclo either. penny posUi I 01 stamped If..
.dd,eu cd envelope for reply. Allow 7 to 10
days for ,eply.

"""'E OF TilE MORE interesting sidelights of

that

complex phenomenon known as radio transmission is the correlation of DX conditions to

ionospheric and geomagnetic variants. There have
been 80 many raised eyebrows recently when comparisons were made, that it becomes necessary to
define characteristics of ionosphere storms. These
disturbances will often manifest themselves in very
deceptive fash ions. Generally however, a DX man
will get to know his particular band. Certain signs
can be accepted at face value to mean good, bad or
mediocre conditions. On the other hand the ham
who is only allotted a few weekend hours may both
fond le and curse his rig within a s hort time because
of the vugarica of an ionos/here storm. Ionosp here
dist urba nce in anyone a its t hree classificat ions
s hould be easily recognized and upon it and it alone
should be vent t he frustration of a near-miss DX
contact.
The ionosphere storm may be described as a
period of from 12 hours to several days during which
the uniformity of the ionosphere changes to one of
heterogeneous patches of ionization. Its most common feature is the decrease in signal strength of aU
sky-wave transmissions. This is due in part. to the
increased absorption within the ionosphere and in
pert to the lower densities of the ionosphere layers.
Overall effects are much more noticeable at night
than in daylight hours. The ionosphere storm fadewhich resembles the well known Asiatic flutter-is
very rapid and is generally of abnormal severity.
During the first few hours of the storm the ionosphere is turbulent and the layer stratification is
destroyed. This results in all signals becoming very
erratic: in numerous instances radio signals will be
heard {rom points normally within the skip range or
in localities normally closed to sky-wave transmission. The most severe effects of the storm do not
appear"to last over 12 to 16 hours. Latter stages
indicate that the F . region is diffused at very great
heights lowering considerably the critical frequency
and the maximum usable frequencies.
Effects of ionosphere storms are more noticeable
on signals that are crossing near the auroral zones.
M the paths approach the equator the effects leeeen,
During minor Ionosphere storms this condition may
be observed on 10 meters when South African,

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Central and South American stations can be heard

and Northern Europeans can not. I n varying degrees this may also be observed on 20 and 40 meters.
Radio signals passing through the auroral zones
during ionosphere storms are reflected by the ionized
patches created by charged particles sweeping in
from the sun. This auroral zone scattering produces
many other off-path transmissions, including the
well known auroral effect on the 6 meter band. It
also appears to be the principal source of the long
scatter during very severe ionosphere storms.
The auroral zone is generally referred to 88 the
belt of latitudes above 50. Act ually this belt is
flexible and the severity of ionosphere disturbance
determines the true location of this belt. The more
severe the storm, the greater the radius of the
auroral belt. This is the reason that aurora is BOrnetimes visible as far south as the 38th parallel. I t has
been found that the actual belt of maximum radio
disturbance is only several degrees wide and during
these severe disturbances, conditions ncar the pole
may be better than th08C much fa rt her south. A
secondary effect in the auroral zones in some disturbances, is the production of an intense sporadic
E layer capable of reflecting signals up to 20 meters.
For DX paths during an ionosphere disturbance
that do not ~ through t he auroral zones, the
transmissions 10 daylight hours will be muc h weaker
than pred icted in the graphs (lower value of t he
inner line of optimum working frequencies) and
probably will not be possible on 10 meters. During
t he n ight practically all signals will have a rapid
fl uttering fade with t he 20 and 40 meter bands closing d own early, although modera te to strong
scattered signals may be heard throughout t he
night.

Decemb er OX Conditions
Transmitting and rece iving conditione for an
average day in December of 1946 will be somewhat
below those of the November peak conditions. On
amateur bands this very slight slump will not be
noticed because of very low static and noise levels
and increased length of the daily openings. From
the eastern half of the United States we find in
Graph A of Fig. 1 average conditions to South and
Central Africa. Tracing the outer line-the line
of maximum usable frequency-we see that an
M UF of 36.0 to 37.0 me may be reached around
1130 hours EST. Conditions over this path are
generally very stable at this time of year and are not
affected by minor ionosphere storms. On 10 meters
the first South African signals may be expected as
early as 0700 hours EST. The in ner line-t he line of
optimum working frequencies (OW F )-ind icates
that this band win be very active from 0730 to 1230
hours EST, with peak conditions between 1100 and
1200 hours EST. 20 meters maybe expected to be
very active after 1400 hours EST with strongest
signal! probably one or two hours later.
I n Graph B average conditions from central a nd
eastern United States to the South China Sea Are&l!I
is depicted. The M UF is expected to be about
34.0 mc resulting in a sharp 10 meter opening from
1430 to 1730 hours CST. H owever, sin ce t his path
croeee the northern Pacific auroral zone eve n slight

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ionosphere disturbances may lower t his M UF considerably. A minor 20 meter opening may occur
a bout 1000 hours CST and the lengt h of the 10
meter opening may vary (rom day to day with t he
possibility of sca tt ered weak signals as early as
1130 hours CST .
Average conditions (or a December day arc illusboated in Graph C (or a path from the eastern portion
of the United States to Central E urope. Although
t he average MUF probably will not exceed 40.0 me
t his mon th, conditione on lOt 13 and 20 meters are
ex pected to be very J(OO(i.
he fi rst signals on 10
meters will be heard between 0730 and 0800 hours
EST. Best conditions can be expected around 1030
hours and a 10 meter closing at about 1330 hours
EST . 20 meter cond itions will be excellent over t his
path with a n ope ning time as early as 0600 hours
EST and a closing t ime around 1800 hours EST.

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The fourth, or Graph D illust ra tes t he average

conditions from eastern and central United States to
Japan a nd North China. A scattered 10 meter opening may be expected around 1615 to 1730 hou rs
EST. 20 meters will rema in active until 2130 hours
EST, although as t his path crosses t he auroral zone
many departures may be expected. There is also
some possibility of a scattered opening around 0700
hours EST which is not indicated by t he M UF outline. Generally, openings of the latter types a re
erratic, but are utilized to good advantage by t he
amateur beca use of t he much lower local ~R~1.
Trans-Pacific condit ions to Australia a nd Ne....
Zealand from the western United States will be very
good with a n MUF of about 41.0 me expected at
1700 hours PST. Eastern Aust ralia and New Zea~
land may be heard on t he 10 meter band as early &I

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and Central Africa . Central and Eastern United Statet to South China Sea areas. (bottom) Eastern half of
United State. to Central Europe. Eastern end central United Stales 10 Japan and North China.

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8y HERB BECKER, W6QD

IS rw l all contributions to Herb Becker, 14.06 South Gra nd Aile., Loa A ngeles 15, Calif,J

During the past couple of weeks, I ha ve recci ved

inquiries from some of you fellows wanting to know
how soon we would be able to get them a new Zone
Ma p. As mentioned last month, our honorable
editor was probably working day and night trying
to get these things printed for you. As soon &.'J they
are off the press, don't worry, vou're going to hear
about them. We want to get those Zone .\laps out
as 800n as possible, because we know there are a lot
of you who have lost the ones you had before the
war, and then too, W6 have a lot of newcomers who
have never seen 1\ Zone Ma p.
We are also working on a country list. As you can
well imagin e, t he cou ntry lis t we used before t he war
would not be too accurate. The new list will incorpo rate a num ber of changes, t he nature of whic h if!
now being hashed out by our DX committee. As
800n as the final country list is decided upon , we'll
put it in print a long with the zone number applying
to each country. I n t he meantime, you fellows
might as well begin compiling your lists of zones
a nd countries in accordance with the knowledge you
now have on what constitutes a country. It will be
a very Sim ple matter to compare your list with t he
official country list when published.
When we gel started with the zone and country
totals, we expect to show pos t-war as well as all t ime
totals. The list, however, will be tabulated numerically in accordan ce with t he post war total of zones
worked. In this way, the fellows who are doing t he
best post-war DX will be listed , a nd following t heir
ca llletters will be t he post-war zones and countries,
and then t heir a ll ti me totals if t hey have any . We
d o not plan to ebow t he calls of any of t he boys who
send in only t heir pre wa r zone a nd country totals,
because t his world indicate they are not now active.
I can see now t his will put a lot of t he high total prewar boys way down on t he totem pole, and the more
I think of it, t he worse it sounds to yours t ruly too.
Ob, shucks, let's devise a ne w system. On the other
hand, t his might be t he s hot in t he ann some of us
need to get out of t he cellar.
Now more to the point-e-le t 's get on to so me of
this DX. In the fi rst place, it looks as though a little
life did begin on "40" for W6 ENV, because a few
nights ago, he hooked up with G6Z0 who was on
7145 ke. The ti me was approximately 10:00 p .m .
PST: la ter, And.y worked NY4Cl\l also on 40.
E N V reports hearing HBI C E , who, no d oubt , W118
HB9CE on a holiday acrose the border.
W9RBI is feeling pretty happy lately, all because
of t he nice work he has been able to do on ten meter
phone. lie seys he gave 20 back to the Ind ians with
interest. Some of the better 8tuff who RoRr! has
worked include J 9LG, VP4T F , VP4TK , E I9J,

heard t hat W7UKe worked VS9AB in Aden. Total

countries now for R BI is 60.
Frequencies for most of the stations listed in the
individual reports will be found in one composite

list. Just tun} the pages. you'll find itl

W6IT A worked ETIJJ in Ethopie, and VS7ES,
both on 20 c.w. W6Pll V up in the northern part of
the slate kicks through with a report on working;
E I6G, Charlie ~ I cCart hy of Cork, and among other
things, E I6G said he W8.'i enjoying our magazine
CQ. Nat urally, we like to hear t hese things, a nd
most of you know it takes a lit t le time to b uild up a

ne w ma~a zinel but with t he cooperation we're getti ng, it won't ne long now.
W5ALA, a nd W5J BD, both of Dallas, live on ly flo
fe w blocks apart. Each put up a t h ree eleme nt
rotary for ten me te rs, a nd on successive m ornings,
t hei r finll Euro pean contacts were with GS M N .
We have a line here from that old left-banded
brass pounder, W9Y:-lll. He's complaining because
he thinks QD bas forsaken the W9's for t he W0 's;
'taint 80! Anywa y , W9YNll broke loose on ten
meter c.w. in March of t his year, and worked only
nineteen countries. T hen he put up a twenty m eter
uQ", and bum ped his countries up to 64. Norm is
still using his nine year old lOO-THs with about
500 wat ts input. 9YNll brings forth a not her little
itemwhich has me somewhat puzzled . It seems t hat
a certain Dr. George Stery of Oecehoelovaklu is
complaining because of not receiving a QSL card in
return for his report en my signals which he heard
before t he war. Doc seems to have a good publicity
agen t , as I have heard t his same thing t h ro ugh
several other of you fellows. Now then , I would like
to have it known here a nd now t hat I have written
two let ters in answer to separate inquiries , and if
this informatio n can be relayed to Dr. Stary, e ven
by carrier pigeon, it would be a ppreciated. My only
reason for taking space here is because surely if I
have heard from some of you on it, t here m ust be
others who have heard t he same t hing from Dr,
Stary, a nd this ma y e ave a lot of time. In lit her
words, " I seen my duty , a nd I d one it. "

GW3AX, GW3UO, lIR~I , lIAW, OZ7P H,

HIUl\IB, OQ5B L, and OX I Zj and then on c.w.,
ZD4AB, VQ2 Flt, a nd OK lAW. After worki ng t his
stuff, WgRBI managed to knock off VU2AQ,
X UIRP, a mi ZB2A1 10 phone, of COUIllC. After
reel ing off t his stuff, he wound up t he day by worklng GW5XN, ZS2AZ, V EI EI~, KH6FD, and
YV5A E for n six ho ur phone WAC . R oes said he

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Georg e Morrow, W8BKP well-known OXer from

WhlnlJtonville, Ohio. h e Jr. op I. In training.

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KH6CT, Lenlkel, Oahu, T. H . 66 ft. ebe ve s ~a level,

the station is only 250 ft. from the: Pacific Ocean.
W6FEX, one of t he old t imers in LA, worked
W6GRL who is now in Shanghai, China . As mentioned before in t his column, Doc was going to
China for a few mon ths, a nd it looks as though he
has finally made t he grade. Anyway, Doc has been
operating at the station of W8CJR, mostly on ten
phone : the frequency used is usually about 28,420.
Doc is over there to super vise the installation of a
10 kw broadcasting station (and of all things, it
coven! the Ham bands too!) However, Doc has his
own portable t ra nsmitter which he probably will set
up when he gets in to his so called semi-permane nt
location. H e was figuring on moving from Shanghai
to Nanking very Shortly, at whi ch t ime, he will
probably get on the air from W6JIM .
Ah, another W4 heard from, in fa ct , a cou ple of
W4's! W4BRB of West Palm Bee ch has worked
PK6HA , PK6TC, ZCIAR, ZClNX, VSIBX,
VS7ES, J21Wa , J2 UVW, and W3IIMO/J2. The
W4's really have to get in there and dig for Asians
like t hose . A few othe r good ones include : ZD4AB,
CNSAB, OQ5BY, SUlUS, W6VKV/ 16, and
LXIAX, as well as Ii. flock of UA's. Ge ne also
worked G3AGC on the Isle of Man on good old 40.
lI e says his friend W4ISF hooked CR 7A D with his
30 Wat ts on ten meters, and W4BPD is over 70
post war cou ntriesj as is W4BRB himself. Nice
going, you W4 's. Keep it up.
W3FDH sends in t he following list of recen t stat ions worked as well as t he a ddress information. I
believe information of t his type is va luable to you
fe llows because of so many new fore ign DX stations
and location changes. If you feel we are wasting;
ti me by giving t hese QT H's, let us know, and we'll
cut it out. W3FDH runs 400 watts on ten meter
phone, an d the sa me on t wenty meter phone and
c.w. His post war countries now total 42.
HPIA
Panama C ity, Panama
YNI ltA Managua, Niceraugua, Box 78
KA5EA Leyte, P . 1. No Navy QTH Gi ven

December, 1946

PK6HA Biak Island , D utch New Guinea

U05VW K agul, U.S.S.R . QSL to Box 88, Moscow
PZIA
Surinam, Neth. Guiana
VU2AQ Bombay, I ndia QSL via R .S.G .B. Great
Britain
\
LA2UA Stavanger, Norway. QSL to Box 898
Oslo
LX I BO Luxem bourg. OK last C .B.
CN8M Z Rabat, French Morocco, Robert Corde
Boie, Rue De Quercy, #38, Rabat.
% American Vice Council
E L4 K
Monrovia , Liberia, W. Africa
E L5B
% Pan American Airways, Roberts
Field, APO 605, Liberia , West Africa.
% P . M . Miami, Florida .
T he past month, the boys have been really goin g
to town on ten meters. T wo or t hree of you fellows
in writing in ha ve asked, " Hey, why a ren 't you on
ten phone, it's really hot." Well, t hat Lcan't an~wer
except for two t hings. In t he first place, lack of t ime,
andthe second place, lack of a mod ula tor. Althougb
fun ny t hings d o ha ppen. I 'm going to play around
with one of these new lit tle narrow band FM exciter
uni ts. So if you hear some strange sound in t he FM
portion of t he ten meter band, be easy with me, will
you, gang ? Speaking of ten meters, you can hear
the funniest t hings sometimes, for exam ple: The
other day, I heard a certain W a pparently having a
heck of a ti me, for t his is what he said , " Calling
TG9L ques tion mark, T G9L quest ion mark,
TG9L question mark, here is W
, hear me,
amigo? " And t hen, there was a guy who was both
frank and honest , and quoting him, uWill you
PLEASE QSL, and I guess why I'm so anxious is
because I 'm just a newoomer in t h is game." Then I
twisted t he d ial a little further and heard a guy in
t he act of giving a report to t he station he was working which went somet hing like t his, "Say, old man ,
you were R5, but I have just adjusted my meter,
a nd now you're R7" . To wind up this dial twisting
urge, there was t he perennial discussion between
two stations on how to make the 300 ohm twin lead
work as a t ransmission line as well 88 a radiator.
When I heard one of these fellows say, "I can't make
this stuff load with a six t urn pickup coil," I twisted
t he dial the opposite direction just in time to hear
ZL2CU say that VPSAD is on South Georgia Island.
So mu ch for the eavesdropping.
For t hose who want to send a card to W9DPZ/
KB6 who was on G uam, they ca n send it directly
to him at t he following QTH: (incidentally, he is
now W5LSP), Art Robertson, 7307 Courtland
Street, Dallas, Texas.
Well, look who we have here ! W4JBS in Norfolk,
Virginia. You ask who t he heck is 4JBS7 ... He's
ex-W3FQP. Anyway, P. B. White is now a WI a nd
has worked 61 count ries all on ten meters, mostly
phone. He's r unning kilowat t to a pule of 250-TH's
wit h a t hree element rotary beam on ten. Now in t he
construction stage is a new final using 30l-TH's
with a 4-250A buffer. I guess t hat crack I made
a bout the W4's being inactive really struck h ome,
because you guys are really breaking loose with a
few contributi ons now. K eep it up, yo'all!
A line from D oc Wester velt whom you might
remember as K6QYI, as well as ha ving had W3 a mi
W6 and W9 calls, is now stationed at Ft. Sam
Houston, Texas: only now he will be known as
W5MY. Doc. hopes he will stay put for a while,
because t his business of being t ransfer red a round t he
world by t he Army doesn't lend itself very well toward getting his call established. Another old t imer
back in what he hopes is a pe rmanent spot is Bill
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To our surprise and pleasure, v-h-f communications have held up in October beyond past history
a.nd our expectations. Wh ile a rec urrence of spored ic-E layer transmission is frequently encountered
in D ecember, a few good days have been repo rted in
October. One t hing about it is t hat if the band
opens now, t here are quite a number of t he fellows
ready to cash in on t he DX. Similarly, t he t wometer band has no t gone 88 dead as it d id in t he
aut umn before the war.
A surprising t hing about 50 me equipment used by
some of the gang is its sim plicity. C.W. is acceptable-and used entirely by some such as W9P K , we
hear. The rig at W7QAP that has done 90 well t his
year is a three-tube affa ir 6AG 7-7CS-829B with 52
wa t ts on t he final. Similarly, on two meters, straight
e .e. on the plates of the tubes, or i.e.w., are not only
usable, but actually are recommended by such as
W6CLV who points out that tone will frequently
come through after signals are too weak for voice.
But getting back to that D X, W7QAP is building
& converter for CE3FV down in Chile, 80 a contact is
& possibility there, almost any time of the year. In
F ebruary, when conditions may be at their peak for
F2 layer hops this year, the British are running a
68 me contest. This is aleo the time-December and
F ebruary-e-when 2(K)() or 2200 mile F-layer 50 me
hops may be experienced, particularly for such paths
aa from California to H awaii, or to points in central
Am erica. Ken Bry an, K6MVV, up t here on t he
north po int of Oahu wo uld be well-sit uated to encourage while " Red" Orrick , K6RVG at Kahuku,
Oahu, would be a nother, not to ment ion some of t he
fellows on the other islands. We also wish t hat somebody would stir up interest in Cuba. We have heard
from C02WL, secretary of t he Radio Cl ub of Cuba,
Leeltad 660\ H avana , but have no favorable word on
60 me. The uO M," Commander Bill Conklin, has
accep ted a regular Navy commission and hopes to
make a 50 me contact himself at XU, KB6 or K6.
I n fact, it is Bill's acceptance of the Navy appointment that leads us to announce that we'll probably
move one of these days, 80 the column will be t urned
over to G. Vincent Dawson, Wp ZJB, Route 1,
G eshland , :MiBsouri, next month.

ege, Beann
\'inee is " Big Beaver" of the middle-west Eager
Beaver V-H-F Net. Vince W8S the first. to work all
call areas on 56 mc (in 1939), while Cliff Simpson,
W 0 YUQ, is t he Supreme Beaver and was t he first
to work all call areas on 60 mc. WpJCQ is the
Lit tle Beaver, "who hopes. "
W 0J CQ, incidentally, started a message from
Ft. Hiley , I{a n888, to WlIIDQ which reached it a
d est ina t ion via 50 m e on September 17. It wen t
ground-wave to W 8SLU near D etroit , t he n to
W2llY M ? n "aurora skip ," and on to W I HDQ t he
eeme evenmg.

8y JOSPHINE CONKUN. W9SlG

meteor shower on October 9. From Pittsburgh he

enjoyed 8. lot of what looks like short sporadie-E
distance or long ground-wave or low-etrnoepherebending DX when he worked W8CIR/I, WIPFJ ,
WIHDQ. W1AEP, WlJLK WIKJC. ;V2BYM ,
W2IDZ. W0JCQ. and heard W3JA Y. W 9N FM a nd

W5FRD. t hat's Beven districts heard. The beam

was very sharp on the stations and had to he right on
them-e-suggesting that these were not the loud
signals of aporadie-E hops. All had a fast fade from
R3 to R9. There were numerous other WI and W2
stations in heavy QRM and weaker.
T his is a very inte resting phenomenon. Bill recalls that several of the periodical meteor showers
before the war coincided w ith what was taken to be
ski p nx, but has not gone into the astronomical
records to work out a connection with the skip
Somebody who wants to work on a college t beele
might look into this, because we can make use of
this type of infonnation which is fa irly predictable.
Possibly the meteors bum up at such a height that
t he j e rtleles fonn a temporary layer in the upper
atmosphere. For that matter, coul d the eporadie-E
layer Itself, which ia spotty in nature, be directly
associated with small gobs of matter that hit the
upper atmosphere? That's a good problem to give
to G2XC, or some of the othe r experts.

The Two-Meter Problem

W3GKP for one-and t here are many othersfind that it is next to impossible to work out of one
large city, a nd in to another, because of superregenerative receivers and modulated oscillators
swooshing by. These fellows don 't realize juat how
muc h they sweep around, because t heir receivers
won't tell t hem.
One possible solution is to get t he serious D X men
on two meters to use horizontal polarization, and let
the broad, radiating receivers and swooshing transmitters use vertical antennas. I t might help, but
many would dislike that solution. Also, it might
be hard to enforce.
Another proposal is that a small part of the band
be reserved for stable signals, in the hope that the
-adietlng receivers and modulated oscillators wiII
stay in their larger portion and be content.

Meteor Show~r Sklp_

A let ter from J ohn Taylor W30MY, ran into a
Ver)' nice bunc h o( DX on t he night of the comet

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W~ZJB's " W hi,Ii,i," Eeam. Full details will appe:a,

in future: ertiele now in preparation. The pcrfOfm.nu
01 the be.m is we:U Il:nown 10 u~h-f men everywhere.
J im Hrannin , W60VK, and ~any others, a re
ah,:a )'s working on t he lads to put In crystal control,
which WIU solve local problems where the population
18 not great. Jim favors a move to give 144-145
megacycles to the crystal controlled stat ions and the
rest of t he band ttl the modulated oscillatorsal tho ugh that would burt t hose where the whole
band is not yet open.
Serious workers on t he band get rat her defin ite
ideas. B rown ie at W2PAU- fonnerly WlIRVhas t he following to say:
uA" for receivers, t here are just plain too ma ny
euper-regenerativee. A plague on t he blasted
things! N ot only do they rad iate (unless t hey
have a good r-t stap;e-Jo. ) and cause needless
QRM., but it looks us if t hey simply won ' t stack
!JP . Wi th the super-heterodyne in sensitivity. This
IS indeed a sad state of a ffaire because many of
the stat ions who put in good signals up here at
M ount E phraim, N ew J ersey , have trouble with
the receiving end of t he dea l. And they cannot
blame it on t he locati on , either. I know t hat I
would nut believe t hat signals were corning in
from New York a nd Lancaster unt il I got t he
super-he terodyne going. W3JAU had exactly t he
same experience .
:. ~ lot of credit should go to W3EKK for his
nu serone ry work on t his ba nd. He acquired a
bea ut iful 13-tube narrow-band super-heterodyne
from Uncle Sam. Be rn ie handed o ut a lot of honest
reports on splash, over-modulation, d rift, and 80 on .
And he was the first of the gang to receive any OX
signals on two-meters. For a long time no one
would believe him! Now It. lot of the fen~ws have
super-heterodynes, including W3BYJ, W2PF Q
W3GQK , W3JA U and W2P KF. Some 01 the I(lUlK
have converted radar receivers into good communications jobs by altering the tuning rangeJ.. narrowing
the i-f bandwidth, and 80 on. W3GQ::-, W3BX U
and W3BZQ pioneered in this approach.
. "Get ting more super-heterodynes on this band
18 the best way to clean it up without lezislation.
W ith a critical receiver, a station can ~nd out
honest reports and thus, eliminate some of the
raw signals before they get well started. " "it b
nothing but super-regenerators in general use, a
fellow may be on the air with a punk signal for a
lonp; time before he contacts a station using a
discriminating receiver. W hen he does get a real
report, the comeback usunllv if!, -'Veil, you're the
first to. notice any troubles, ; ') why should I worry
abou t It:" ..

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Six Mt:ter Skip OX

Alth?u~,h t he Irequeney (If flO mc DX open ings by
spora<..h c-h la yer, a urora, or perhaps meteor ionisetll:>D, has decreased mo re or less steadily since July ,
With the pmslM:'Ct of an off-season peak again ID
Decem ber, the openings that ha ve occurred have
brought out an astonishing number of contacts.
This may 1)( duo to constant. occupancy of the band
by a LUJ!:<' p;an.~, or more likely by careful observation of the action of the ten-meter band looking for
short skip under a thousand miles or so.
It is very evident that W(' 110 not receive reports
from any great percentage of active stations, because a "calls worked" list will frequently show
twenty stations or 80 who were active on that dey
but Who did not write to us. Howe ve r, as the K8D~
keeps sending in the dope, a fair picture of conditions
can be obtained. All reports of September skip OX
are from Vince Da wson, WPZJ B, your conductor
next month, but there are four covering openings in
October. H ere is the dope:
Stpit'TTlber t. Wh en ten meters opened for weak
florida signals and shifted to W3 , Vince heard a
station on 51.6 me at 1216 CST.
September 4. At W07.JB, the band BOunded like
aurora buzz, but it turned into a good night for
Illinois and Iowa extended-ground -wave work from
Ka nS88 City, and W9ZIIB bro ke through for a
short time again.
September 5. Vince work ed W7KAD from 1930
to 2005 orr, KAD 's 8i~nals goi ng out at 2 145 after
he worked t he whole middle-west gang,
September 8. Wit h the ten-meter band hot , at
1120 Central ti me Vince hooked W7K AD again for a
few rmnutea before he faded o ut. In the eveni ng
with ten hot in a ll d irect ions, t here was no evidence
of six-meter skip but good contacts were ma d e on
10~-atmn8phere-bendin~, or extended-grou nd-wa ve.
With even WOQ UV corning t hrough to Kansas Ci ty
from Ill inois.
September 17. Vin ce reports that t here was a lot
of a urora nx on t his n ight, but he missed it.
September 18. T his t ime, t here was still a urora
buzz on e xtf>nded-ground4wave signals. including a
WOZ II BW0 7.J B contact at 2135 CST. Vince had
~ il'l beam at 50 d egrees wh ile ZHn t urned his north
instead of so ut hwest. The rest of t he Illinois a nd
10 W l L ~!Lng had t he buzz on thei r c-w signals but none
~ me t hrough on phone. T his is j ust another illustration t hat c.w. or modulated keyed carrier will Irequcntly bring DX contacts on six or two meters
when phone will not .
Oclober 9. W30~IY in P it tsburgh on this night
of the meteor shower worked W8C I R / I , W I PJ F ,
WlII DQ, W IA EP, WIJ LK, W IKJC, W2BYM ,
W21DZ, W0 J CQ and heard W3JA Y, WOX F~I ,
and W5FRD . He also heard numerous other WI
and W2 stations but they were in heavy Q R ~ I and
were weak. J ohn Taylor has now been added ttl the
list of stations that have worked all call ereea, having
made his W2 contact on this peculiar set-up on
October 9. He has 19 states.
O~ 16. Leroy May , W5AJ G, re~rted the
band wide open from 18.10 to 2115 CST on this
date. It is noted, however, that the time agrees
with several reports of the band being open on
October 17, and a number of stations are on the
seve...t lisu.-W8DAL, WOZH B, WOPK , W0IFB,
W p YUQ and W~J CQ . There is not time for us to
write these stations to confirm whether they worked
DX on both dates. Anyhow, 'V5AJ G lists contacts
with W8QY D in Dayton, W4ED D /3, W8 DA L,
WOZWF, W4 II V\', WOZlI B, WOPK, WOPlI V,
WOUX 8 , WOl F Il, WOt:I A. WO\' UQ and WOJZQ

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(~CQr ).

lie hee rd W8CYA. Now, fellows, this is a

DIce hst of contacts (or anrone, and was done with
a . lone 807 in the final ~th 30 watts and a simple
dipole antenna. Leroy Just happened to listen for
the first time in months, and 00' he wentl Signals
were mostly of good strength and it was as fine as
opening during the Bummer. Although he was not
active on the band in the late summer, be did find
openings on May 16; June 5, II, 12, 14, 20, 23, 24,
29,30; July I, 3, 5, 7, 14; August 9. 12, 18; September, none; October 16 (or 177). This is a fair Picture
of the summer seasonal pattern of 50 me eporadie-E
layer DX.
Odober 17. This is the date that the above work
of W5AJG may have been done-but it is subject to
recheck. Anyhow Charles Faulkner, W6FPV,
worked W9ZIIII, IV0YUQ, W0NFM and W0DZM
(~ t i nnesota) around 7 p. m. Pacific time. He also
called W07.111. W9PK W0IFII and 1V0JCQ.
F rom t his list, it seems that Faulkner has to t hank
the mid-wes t net for most of his contacts because it
was primarily their activity that made the opening
possible for him. \v6FPV was using 100 watts on a
VT.127A on 51 ,672 kc with a 4-element horizontal
beam and a home-made superhet. lIe noted that the
signals this t ime seemed to favor hori zontal polarisetion, not being heard on a vertical. Another report
comes from Bud Keller, W7QPA. He found that the
band opened twice! The first t ime . at 1110 Mountain time, he worked W7JAP. Then a t 1957 the
second opening brought contacts with \V0~IZJ,
W0MFN, W07.111, W0JCO, W0YUQ. 1V6YBP,
and W6KIW. AIeo, he heard W0IFII, and 1V0CHI.
No double hop appeared a t W7QAP, although
WpY UQ was very loud while he was working
W2I1YM, W8DAL and W8QYD. So the hand was
open from California to X ew Jersey, and it was
Quite an ..o pening!
8ritish ~Notes

Our monthly copy of the Ri3GIJ Bulletin brings the

column en t it led , "The Month on Five," by \V.A.
Scarr, G2WS. The G stations really work a lot of
interesting DX when t he band opens on 58 mc for
t hem. Some of t he calls getting o n the Bummer DX
a re JIII9G, G5BY, IIA Y, S UIKE, GI6TK, G6CIV,
G 2XC, F3J1I, G5 ~ IQ. IlIRA, II FA, G6VX, G5BD,
G5LL, G6D II , G4CI, G5T X, IIDA, IIAY). F3VV,
IISS G5 W, HII9RLA, HII9RQB, HJj9RS~I,
G2~{Y, G511J . G6JII, G8fI, S~15SI, S~15fI, G6UH,
G8RK, G2ZV, OKIAW... G5IG" G6SL, G2AK,
G6YU, G2I1MZ, G2YL, v5LL. come of the dates
for Sporadie-E layer DX were :\Iay 19; June 4, 24,
30; July 21' and August 22. Perhaps t he greatly
smaller numht;r of open dates is a direct result of the
smaller widespread activity on t he band than there
is here in the U. S. A.
The:5Q..Megacycle Ga ng
W30l\IY in Pittsburgh joins W3RUE in wanting
to know why they never hear ground-wave DX from
the east. They feel that if the Washington , D. C.,
gang would tum their beams northwest at night, a
contact could be made over the several low mountain
ranges that intervene. J ohn, you should get
W4EDD /3 busy on t hat one, he may run some
tests with you. W30:\IY's skip DX days were July
zi, 26, 27, 28; August 9, 19, 24j and October 9.
W~JCQ is leaving for Germany soon, and hopes
to get there in time to set up on 50-60 me by Febmary for BOrne F-layer transatlantic work which
may occur this winter and next.
WPZJB wants volunteers to help repair the
damage left by WIHDQ, W4EDD and W9ZHII

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when they tried to put up a new beam at "Megacycle Farms."

\Ve have found out why Keller, W7QAP, goes by
the name of "Bud." His first name is Winchell. He
has started extended-ground-wave tests on six
meters with Wuyne Hest er, W7KAD and formerly
W5JG V/ 7 at Hurley, New Mexico. Straight o.w.
was necessary much of the time at first without any
sign of temperat ure inversions. When W60VK and
W6QLZ used to put through S9 si gnals, it was when
the temperat ure would drop from about 80 to 30
degrees in the evening and night. The TucsonDouglas terrain is rugged, starting a t 2,40:> feet and
rialng to over 6,000 feet then d own t o 4,000. QAP
uses52wattBin to an 82gB and Way ne has 450 watts
into HK54's. Each have horizontal beams. When
Bud fired up his new 6AK5-6AK5-6C-l converter, he
found that Wayne became readable on phone usually
whereas e.w. was necessary on the old receiver with
its hiss a nd highl y regenerative rf stage. The new
converter has no more over-ell gain, but it is obtained through straight non-regenerative gain which
does not amplify the noise as much.
In Zearing, Illinois about SO miles southwest of
Chicago, Ed. Grabill of 1V9ZlIB work. to W9HAQ
in Davenport, l awn, and to the Chical(o area. At
times, his ~:und-wave signals get as far as Kansas
City. He
two nice windmill towers, hold ing up
his lQ..6-2 meter beams, all horizon tal. On six , he
uses a three element job 80 feet high, fed with Q-bu'l
and a transposed 45(H)hm line.
W7HEA in Toppenish, w ashington, has a nice
rig for both six and two me ters. The excite r enda up
in an 832 which drives a pair of 4.12.1.\'s on six
meters with 500 watts on the plates. He hall a
triple-deck antenna on 10, 6 and 2 meters, a ll bei ng
plumber's delights, wit h folded dipole ra diators fed
with 300 and 7~hm t win lead. B y aJjuit in~ the
length of the 75-0hm section, he obtains a match.
All of t hese rotate on the same mast, end are co ntrolled remotely from the shack. His receiver co nverter uses an acorn r-f stage with coaxial lines a s
tuned circuits.
\V9ZUL in Wilmette, Illinois, has modified his
DM36 for 50 me and has joined t he six-meter j1;tmg
around Chicago. 1V70IVX on 51.4 baa been added
to t he Tucson, Arizona, stations. W9 U:-.rS in ~I ar
shall, I nd iana, is now on t he band.
Two-Metel Comm ~nb
In Dallas, \V5AJG is working on hid 14-1 me
gear. Fort Worth stations a re now a cti ve, 40 miles
away. Leroy used to do this hop very well on
112 mo and believes that more interest will be evident~on 144.
According to Lloyd Broderaon, W6CLY, t he
Sacramento KBI!g is still active, including W6K~IE,
BVK and :MGC . A few weeks ago, Lloyd went to
&UI1ll8 and installed a folded dipole for VQK wh o
is the lone two-meter representative there. VQK has
a plane rigged out for two-meter work, with an offcenter single wire fed antenna, and a test hop was
planned for October 19. W68LP is a new stauon in
Sacramento, who lays d own a good signal with a
flea-power portable. Lloyd is a finn believer of c. w.
and 1.0. w. as a good means of stretching the D X on
the v-h-f bands.
Of scientific interest and some amazement it is,
noted that October 9 which brought the meteor display also stirred up some two-meter DX, a ccording
to WDIO D. The horizontally-polarized gang started
the evening out early about 6 :30 081' with S8 and
89 signals. Active stations included W9BHJ.
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EGUIPMENT
CO.
131-Q LIBERTY ST., NEW YORK CITY 7, N.Y. - WH 4-7658
December, 1946

39

by Ameli. Bleck, WiOLB

" Y8 ): A

c-w o.u should stick to code but we can't

help t hinking back to the recent ~Ia n c hester.

X. II . convention, which yours t ruly left as a
neophyte public speaker. It was a wonderful hamIest, more informal than usual, with all the trimminga that Idt with us warm and happy memories.
And mee ting eight Iicensed YLs whom we'd QSO'd
but never seen , woul d alone have made t he t rip
worthwhile .
Our hostess, Dot Evans, IFTJ, made out very
well in the code contest, copping second prize. She
IUUI a 35 wpm code certificate and a neat fist. Despite t he romantic 188 ticket Dot held , she won
not hing ill t he prize d rawings.
Among t he licensed hams we easily recognized
lall, attractive Eunice Randall, Wl:\IPP, of Watertown, Mess. Besides being an active ham since
1921 , Eunice is a power company draftsman, holder
(If a commercia l license and member of t he LIt.Eo
Now on 80 and 2 me ters , she hopes to get on 6 800n.
AillO spotted Leora Howe, lKKQ of N ashua,
wit h no trouble. She's been a radio operator in t he
WAC, and is now taking G.t training in photography . We had a very enjoyable lunch with Leora,
Dot a nd Eleanor Blake, WIMWt Eleanor is married to WlJDP, and lives in Wayland , Mass.
~I {'t an old neighbor from Wal tham-Louise
Bruye , tMDV. Though Class A since 1939, she
w orks c.w. only, on 80. Most of her time is divided
between t raffic a nd DXi ng. During t he war, Louise
was a n electrical inspec tor at Raytheon. O ~ [ is
WIKKJ .
We w ere also pleased to meet Wl1\I UY, Norma
:\loskey , of Manchester. Sh e sched ules husband
IJMY nightly on SO-Joe's doing a temporary
bac helor act in Connecticut while waiting to move
into t heir new home in Hartford.
It was nice meeting a lively rag-chewer, Alice,
WIMJE, who is married to IKON . Alice is a great
fav orite w it h the 80 meter gang.
For a long t ime, we've been anxio us to kn ow one
of t he most popular old-time YIA, ~I ay Smith,
WIBDX , (If Manchester. She has a wonderful c,II
lection uf memories of ham activities that da te beck
to really early days. Mat is t he sister of WIHP1\1.
Lou Littlefield , 1~I C\\ (One More Cross Woma n,
she says-e-very pleasant, we say) boasts 60 countries
post-war on 10 p hone, including a QSO with Ind ia.
With her at the con vention WlLS OM WI CRU; t hei r
home is in Cape Elizabet h, Main e.
We were most impressed with the eloquence of a
Vf'I')' "irate" wife who grabbed the mike when asked
for comments following our talk . This well-stacked
end Iuscioua female (clad in falsetto .voice, evening
gown, wig end men's shoes ) was indeed a boon t)
the womanhood of hamming. She delivered It
magnificent address, gave typical ham conversations
and left us with a rare gem of a definition- X YL
means " Xcterminate Your Lo ve." This lady we're
sf.l'.8k illJ/; of is the inimitable and reverend M. B.
Strickland , WI G.lG, a nd he's no lady !
At the Evans shack, Dot Wickenhet'lCr, W3JSH ,
better known as 2 ~ t 1 Y (t hen Dot Knapp), met D >t

40

E vans. After 7 years on the air toget her, the t Wl)

Dots finally came face to face. (No puns now, ab .iut.
the Dote dashing togethcr.)
Recently lunc hed wit h Kit t y Le Pine, W2FKA. of
River Edge, N. J. Looked forward to the meeting
ever since seeing a pix of her holding 80 handsome
fish (the edible variety-pickerel, I think). W c
talked out t his mutual fis hing hobby, t hen got d own
t o hamming. Strictly a c-w ope rator from way back,
and well known on 20 and 40, Kit ty 's converting t
phone. For years she's been trying to get the 0 :\1
ham-wise, but pounding brass just hasn't clicke.l
with him. The idea of talking over the air finally
intrigued him into studying for his t icket, and
Kit ty's being compromised into p hone. T houg h
Kit 's doing all she can to help Bert with infonnati on
and manuals she stops t here-no prodd ing,
Another girl t rying to stimulate her OM 's interest
is Lillian, W2PMA. Lil'a applying real strategy.
She simply moved her rig right up to Ab bey 's se~v:'ce
station m ~I amaroneck , N. Y. Between servrcmg
cars, this particular Mr. a nd ~Irs. can now be heard
on 10 phone.
Brand new YL call, W2T B U belongs to Kit Zion 4
son. A former WAC, Kit is now a schoolteacher
studying engineering on the side. . W2PBI, a n
old t imer of several months, reports a new four
element beam on 10 phone . . . another short-cime
veteran is W2QWL. Mignon is in thc same a-c
apartment huntlD~_ cha.se as yours truly.
The New York City YLRL is now holding roundtables on the first of each month at 8 p.m. on 29,000
kc phone and at 10 p.m. on 7220 kc for e.w.
Local YLs ere anticipating the expected visit of
ZS6GH, Miss Diana Tuck of J ohannesburg, South
Africa.
YL of the Month
Also present at t he previously mentioned luncheon
with Kit ty was Liz ZandoniOl, W3CDQ. of ~Va.ih 4
ingt on , D. C. One of t he best known barns III the
IConiin oud on ""ge 601

Fro m left to right-Kitty Le Pine. WiFKA . Lit Z.n

doninl, W3COQ . nd Lil 's sisler M .rie Z.ndo.1ini.

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December. 1946

41

aso

Ind.. Book

A spiral bound loose leaf QSO index book ill now

being manufactured by Cha rles B. Wa re, W3GQS.
An interesting approach to the problem of keeping a
record of QSOs with pertinent information, t he QSO
index provides apace for about a 1000 calla under
each alphabetical beading. Full details may be obtained by wri ting Charles B. Ware, W3GQS,
Feasterville, Pa.

or motor drive. The beam attaches easily to any

suppo rti ng tower. It can bp t ilted. in eithe r direction
and t hua brought flat against its tower for easy
accessibility to permit turning or adjustment of the
array without removing t he support from t he tower .
The Trylon rotary beam antenna support incorporates the same design feat ures t hat arc used in
the high commercial broadcast ing sticks. It supports a 4-element array with a sufficient margin of
safety to \\; t hstand wind a nd icinKconditions t hat so

Communiatio n. Receivct

Collins Radio Co., Cedar Rapids, Iowa ha.s announced a new communications receiver engineered
specifically for amateurs. Containing many desirable features, the 75A is the first amateur radio
communications receiver made by Collins, who are
outstanding manufacturers of all kinds of communieattone equipment ,
The double conversion circuit of t he 75A employs
fourteen tubes. including 8 rectifier. The use of
double conversion avoids t he compromise between
a high i.f. desirable for image rejection an d a low
d. for optimum selectivity.
Feat ures of the Collins receiver incl ude an entirely
new system of permeability tuning providing linear

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calibration on all bands. Ten turns of t he vernie r

tuning dial cover SO, 40, 20, 151 11, and 10 meters.
Each division of t he vernier d ial (whic h has 100
di vision s) represents 1 kc on SO, 40, 20, and 15
meters, and 2 kc on 11 and 10 meter bands.
Dial calibration is d irectly in frequency; variable
selectivity crystal fil ter; a utomatic noise limiter ;
ea libreted S-meter; high stability; separate oscillators for mixers; and amplified a. v.c. are additional
feat ures of t he 75A. A 1 microvolt r-f input signal
provides normal audio output with approximately
10 db signal-to-noise ratio.
Rotouy Beem Antenn. Support

T he new Trylon Rotary Beam An tenna Support

made by the Wind T urbine Company, W esL Chester,
Pcnne ., offers amateurs an easily installed fully
dependable uni t (or a-element, 2O-meter a rray. Of
lightweight , stainless steel, spot-welded cons truction
t he s uppo rt h es a n overall length of 19'2" yet weighs
onl y 31 pounds exclusive of the mounting assem bly.
Hall bea ring design provides full and easy 360 0
traverse sud t he unit is adaptable eit he r to manual

42
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often wreak havoc with home-made supports an d

sometimes even cause p roperty damages.
The support can easily be moved from one locat ion to another and can be erected with no tool
ot he r than a screwdriver. It is shipped in convenient knockdown sections with comp lete instructions
for quick, easy erection.
A folder picturing a nd describing the new development in detail will gladly be sent on req uest to t he
Wind Turbine Company, Tower and An tenna Divi sion, West Chester, Pa. Other available literature
describes T rylon Antenna Towers for all amateu r
and oommercialstations applications including ideal
towers for use with the rotary beam antenna
support.

V -H-F r.Und.
United Electronics Co., Newark 2, N . J., has anno unced t heir new type 5562 v-h-f tetrode. A
graphite type anode With a new isolated getter-trap
gives the Un ited. 5562 the lowest ope rating temperat ure of any tube of t his kind.
General characteristics of t he 5562 are: filament.
6.3 volts at 3.0 a. ; amplification factor 60 ; transcond uctance 2500 micrcmhos; ' interelect rode capaci...
tanccs; input to plate, .2 PIJ1J in put 6.5 IJllf, output
1.8 IJlJf. Ma xim um Clas8 \,; telegraphy ratings up
to l ~ me are : d -e plate voltage, 2000i d-e grid volt age (grid I ), 350; d-e grid voltage (gnd 2 ), 400; d -e
plate current , 125 rna j d-e grid current, 20 rna; plate
mput 175 watts; screen in put 8 wetta ; plate dissipation, 45 wa t ts.
Fnd-Thru Capacitors
N ew hermetically-sealed, metal-eased, feed
t hrough capacitors are now in producti on at the
Oomell-Dubilier Electric Corpo rat ion.
The hermetically sealed, metal cylindrical containers are equi pped with universal side mounting
brackets with foil ends fully swaged by a new

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Freq uency Computer

process.
The d -e rated voltage is 600 v- Its, t he
e-o rated voltage 330; both a t 15 a mps. Capacities
range (rom .01 Jlf to .5 ,d. Further details of these
new capacitors will be furnished upon request to
Cornell-Dubilier Electri c Corp., South P lainfield ,
N ew Jersey.
M~d ium

Power Triode
A new triode tran smitting tube in the med ium
power field, the T -300, has been released by Taylor
Tubes, Inc., 2312 ' Va bansia Avenue, Chicago. Wit h
an increased fi lament wa ttage and ca rbon plate the
tube is similar in so me respects to the old 2Q.l-A. and
is 8 similar to the HF-300, K U23 and the DR-300
except lUI indicated.
Physical characte ristics: Overallsize-12" + !-l";
overall diameter of bulb-3 ~"; overall d ia mete r
over grid pin (brought out a t side) 4 ~"; bese-cJ umbo 4-pinj diameter of plate connector- 13 / 16"
diame ter of grid oonnloctor-}i" ; filarnent-c-theori eted tungsten; plate-s-carbon .
("""ON"" ('11'('1rieal ebaracterist i('CI: filament volt-

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N . Y. This new frequency com puter correlates, in
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Since a ll answ ers a re gi nn a t only a single setting,
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for widely varying physical dimensions nf coils, s uch
11S high-power t ransmit t ing coils or the sma llest
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Crystal Controlled Test O scillator

Bliley Electric Com pany , Erie, Pennsylvau iu, an1l 0\lIlC('S IL test instrument, co mplete ly crystal cont rolled . engineered for grea ter proficiency end eccu racy in radio a lign me nt. This crystal cont rolled
oscillator, known ae t he ceo, em ploys Bliley low
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45

C. W. -Phone Subdivisions
512 Parkside

Editor, CQ:

r, Peoria 5, Ill.

I'm all for your plan of a "division of frequencies

on a basis determined by the percentage of amateurs
using each ty pe of transm ission." Your idea of Ineluding foreign stations in this division is just right,
too, I think. The 2O-meter band is practieal ll
ruined rig ht now by foreign p hone and I believe it s
high time for somethi ng to be done about it.

L. A. Morrow, WPVKF
Chester House, Chine Crescent ,
Bournemouth w est, E ngland
Editor, CQ:
_
. ... commend me to your ed itorial of t he August
issue .. beginning Foreign Governments. Is the
Brit ish ham included in this heading7 And baa the
F. C. C. t he decid ing vote internat ionally as to what
comprises the c.w.-phone bands as regards Brit ish
amateurs? You state that you realize t hat for stations outside USA, to work in the American phone
band would p robably mean they would be
"smeared ." M ight I be so bold as to ask if you
have listened on 14000-14200 kc to QR;\I caused by
your G I stations operating in Europe a nd I taly with
power far in excess of any lawfully used by the English amateurs. If 80, have you ever considered
that these stations are a great deal more offensive
outside the band?
. . , , the old line "the)' are working traffic" is in
your own lanzuaze "baloney." If you are so keen on

fair play, wipe your own slate clean first and insist on
American phones in Europe work ing inside the
American phone bands where 500 watta can compete
with 500 watts and kw against kw-not 500 watta
and kw against 150 watt phone and 25 watt o-w
stations.
I agree that international agreement is necessary
re band sub-division, but let it be inlunalional and
not so selfishly American as your article indicates.
Fred C. White, G3XP
1834 N. E. 50 Ave., Portland 13, O re.
Editor, CQ:
What has been gained by the proposed frequen cy
changes on 14 mc? It is commonly fel t amongst
people with whom I have talked that the old 14 me
frequency allocations were excellent. Something
like them should prevail throughout the amateur
spectrum in order to d ivid e QRM and especially

hand edge QRM.

Putting t he phone band in the midd le of 20, splits

phone and o-w QRM. I t also leave two edges for tho
phone DX man a nd gives the o-w operators two
edges instead of one 88 now proposed. N 0 change
should be made without ma ture deliberat ion among
t he amateur act ively operating on the bands under
d iscussion.
Wally Hagestad, W7 ENW

OSLo
4030 N, Leclaire Ave., Chicago 4 1, III.

Editor, CQ:
It is true that we could still enjoy our amateu r
radio even if no QSL cards were ever printed. but it.
is certainly just as true that our hobby is a lot richer
and fuller because some of us d o send cards. It will
be t wenty years this December since I received my

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December,1946

47

W9KA and I still send a card to every stat ion I

work. Of course I only send 8 card the first time I
work a station. I migh t add that I always get a kick
out of rece iv ing 8. card eve n t houg h it be (rom a

stat ion in my own city.

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Hats off to old-timer W9KA who would ~erlJl (J$ an
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our postwar rords.-Ed.
How Much?

1440 Flo rtbunda, Burlingame, Calif.

Editor, CQ:
. . . . I am 0. potential purchaser of many articles
advertised hnvlng been off the air many years and
a nxious to resume operation. I am enthusiastically
fired up over reading descriptive articles (of equip-

rnen t ) and your ads. but what do they cost?

I am fully cognizant of present-day cost conditions.
However manufacturers who do not quote p rices
may ve ry well lose sales, as we a re likely to buy
some ot he r brand priced right. Actually the a rt icle
we really want ma y also be with in our purchaelOR power.
A. R. Kanega, W6BAA
The " Best" Antenna
Elmhurst College, Elmhurst, III .
Editor, CQ :
" 'e have fou nd at W9SCH that a horizontal ma y
he e ven more of a "cloud warme r" unless it is at
so me multiple of a h alf-wave above tho reflec ting
eurface-c-tend lng othe rwise to squirt most of the
energy straight up ut the clouds where it can ne ver
d o any KO<MI, except to an itineran t bird .
In looking over the tlvcr.i_~C suburban location, one

no t ices that there are many more horizontal cond ucto rs in the field of the a ntenna. t han vertical
ones. Accord ing to si m ple reasoni ng a vert ical
should suffer fa r less abso rp t ion than a horizontally
pola rized wave.
It is poss ib le to make a vert ical a ntenna perform
satisfacto rily at a ny heigh t above ground prov ided
that one places a set of rad ials-or a ground plane,
Immedietelv beneath it. At W9SCII a ten meter
vertical wfth its lower cud about 25 feet above
ground performed in a ra ther mediocre fash ion until
a counterpoise of four twelve foot rods was placed
beneat h it. A 1-1 me half-wave vertical now in use
here also responded favorably to the same treatment . The ra d ial system in use beneath t he 11 me
antenna consists of six wires st retche d over a composition paper roof, connected together at the common cen te r. but insulated from the rest of the system. For best results, the radials should approach a
quarter wave in length, bu t this is not critical.
It is believed here t hat, aside from a. d irective
system, the vcrt .ical half-wave antenna wi th a.
radial system is the most effective DX rad iating
sy,.. tem {or the average ham.
C. F. Rocke}" Jr., " '9SCH
Electric Co. Special

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Editor, CQ:
R e: page 27, Sept. 46 CQ. How do you turn the
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Paul E. Trued, W41IX:\1
T M draftsman owns 3tock in the light company. A
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NOISE
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Special procedures which reduce to a. few
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One of th e simple laws of radi o com.

muni catinn is this: "you can't work a
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as bad as 110 signal at all is on e so
ga rbled with timan -made" s ta tic that
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hear I t.
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gives r ecommendati ons.
For detailed information on elimina ting noisy reception, sec Chapte r 10
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UHF
(from paUt SB)
W9UDO (Union), W9ERU (Rockford ), W9DLf,
W9RHL (H oba rt, Indiana ), W9BOR (Hammond,
Indiana ), W9GGH (Kenosha , Wisconsin ), W90NX
(Berwyn, Illlnoie), and 'V9IOD. Also, there was a
contact between IOD and W9JPK in Milwukee who
was using a vertical antenna. BHJ and UDO are
using BC625A t ransmi t ters with about 25 wat ts in
t he 832A final; t hese sets are t he SCR-522 aircraft
jobs, and should be available by the t housand as
eoon as t he Arm y starts to let them go.
W3KMM /9 is on in J oliet and works into t he
C hicago area. W9HM~1 reports t hat Chicago stations are heard in Racine, Wisconsin . Act ive stat ions incl ude HM~I, CAR, RrW, WWH , PFH ,
KIlH, SOW.
W9IOD has been making consistent contacts with
t he Rockford gang including E RU, UDO BHJ,
HHL. DLI at a distance of ove r 80 miles, when t he
band eceme closed tighter t han a drum to others.
IOD attributes t his to the use horizo ntal antennas.
W9FFG reports Chicago area two-meter activity
to include W9BIS ex W8NUI / 9, TKA , DBK. ULP,
MIK, SPQ. F FG, 11'0, and W2FZA/ 9. The la t ter.
F ZA, had trouble with his signals brea king up the
" taxi" band above 152 me. NFl\: points out that
t his may not be due to any fa ult of the two-meter
transmit ter, but of a receiver image in a commercial
mobile set wit h t he oscillator on the low side of t he
signal about 9-12 me.
W9RHL has been stirring up activity in Indianapolis, helped by W9DLI. They use horizontals.
W9 VEZ and W9FF G report on t he " ten and

HARRISON HAS

two" hidden transmitter race held on October 6 by

the Mid.West VHF club. None of the te n-meter~Y8 did any KOOd. but the t wo-meter gang did.
VEZ, ZDG, NJ"J and RKA took turns operating the
transmit ter. The first car to locate t he set were
SWL's Hitz, King and Hunt using an 8-37 with 4element rotary beam. It took 53 minutes, with low
mileage of 12.5. W9SXE was seco nd using a
superregen and -t-element beam, time 105 minutes
an d mileage 25. W9YTM was t hird wit h 106 minutes an d mileage 26. W9NLZ and WOBON aleo
came t hrough la ter.
Abo 400 Me
Berna rd Bates, WIBBM, says that the 425-mc
band was ope n to t he New York area on September
1,7, 15, 16, 17, 20,21 ,26,27, 28 a nd 29. T his is a
result of listening to t he RCA 438-mc transmitter.
One sure-fire condition is cold nigh ts afte r hot daya;
another good time is when light fog starts dropping
down after sunset. In Augus t, cond itions peaked up
aroun d 9 :30 in t he evening, but in September t he
best ti me was midnight. Bernard gets general coverage from his heam by pointing at water tanks four
and five miles away, bringing in signals one or two
points lower. H is antenna is only 28-feet high , just
clearing tree tops, but it seems to work on groundbased ducts v~ry nicely. Bernard is convinced t hat
ccoperauon With simple equipment and antennasin the clear-will bring communication up to two
hund red miles down the coast or up toward s Maine.
Well, gang, it is 73 now. Please help Vince to put
out an interesting column and get the word a round
so that the gang ca n enjoy the v-h-f bands more and
more. We'll miss not reporting the first F-layer
transocean QSO, bu t we may still have time to get
out and take part in it.

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V,om pag' SSJ
Shule r, W7GEW. He is one of the old time operators of W6BC. Both of the above are Colonels, one
in t he Medical corps and the other in the Engineers.
Incidentally, Bill's QTH is F t . Lewis, Washington.
R eceived a note the otber day from W7CX in
Reno, N evada. You can't
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California, 80 its W7CX in Reno and W6CW at

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Lake Tahoe. I nciden tally, Art is bemoaning t he

fact t hat he never received a card from PK6XX
confirming t heir QSO of August 25,1938. Art understood t hat VK4HN was handling t he QSL sit uation
for PK6XX. Maybe some of you guys can help
W7CX in this t hing, and in return, may be he can
help you, because if you knew R eno like I know
Reno! Art has been doing his share of DX on 10
and 20 meter phonel although, he says he wants it
understood t hat he c oee know t he code and actually
works a little stuff via t his medium . We can t hank
him for some frequencies which will be found in t he
list below.
W8PQQ blew himself to a new RRO, and as a
consequence, sends in a whole ~ge of good DX stat ions, and their frequen cies which he has logged. As
mentioned previously in this column, we are going
to pool all the stations and their frequencies into
one combined list, and I think t he DX gang as a
whole appreciat es seeing this list even though maybe
only one or two stations out of t he whole list will
p rove of benefit to them. I think as time goes on,
t here will be no use in publishing the frequen cies of
the more common DX stations, but will confine it
more to, shall we say, t he rare stuff.
Ah, here's one from Wl2'GKS, Dr. G ross. H aven 't
heard from Doc for years, a nd of course, he used to
be a Wg. D oc sends in a n ice typewrit ten list of 34
zones and 65 countries with an all t ime total of 37
and 109. I do hope tha t when you fellows send in
your list, you'll do your darndest to make it a typewri tten one, listing the coun tries, call 1etters of stations worked, and followed by the d ate worked. On
t he zones, list t he zone number with the cull let ters
of the station in t he zone worked, followed by t he
date. If we can get a standard form established! it
will make it much easier for yours t r uly, and believe me, t he tabulating of these lists can become
quite a problem. W0GKS wen t so far as to put t he
exact t ime of the QSO, which will not bc necessary,
except t hat it would help probably to cross check a t
a la ter date. All of Doc's post-war work has been
done since the lat ter part of August , 1946 on 14 mc
c.w.
H ear yel. hear ye, hear ye, etc., etc., Wha t do you
think By Goodman has been up to? Well, it will be

CHOICE OX FREQUENCIES
C.W.

Ph on e

EAID
EL5B
E I3J
FiAE
G W5VX
J 91..o
J9AAB
QZ7H L
OX I BC
PZIO
SUlCX
T I2H B
T I3Fl\l
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ZBlAB
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C8Y R
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E I9J
HAW
HRIMB
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P ZIRM
V 06F

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14190
14060
14325
14205
142l1O
14300
14300
14350
14330
14325
14160
14140
14300
14315
14325
14200
14285
14300
14335
14300
14335
14310
14305
14300
14310
29200
28010
27310
18435
2841 5
211450
28150
14240

SVIEC
WgJ SU / O X
QU 30 E
UA9D P

YRSC

PKIRI
ZE lJU
ZD4AB
V~2FR

lAW
S"17TJ
VSI BX
J2UV W
OKIWF
S!\l5 KC
HB5AB
UA3KBC
SM3ZF
S?\15X B
UA3 HI
U R5AB
V0 5Z
UA3KAH
OX2K
OK2D D
F A8SB
I,AA
UA9CF
OKIAW
1<'G 3FP
IIPL
HB9F~
CR'R
OXIC

14080
14150
14040
14055
14000
14075
28 150
28015
28060
28080
14040
14070
H 2lIO

uoso

H060
H 060
14040
14070
14065
14085
14060
14000
'4000
14100
14055
14000
14085
14000
140.10
14360
14060
14060
14180
14100

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a little old by t he time you read t his, but the guy

goes out an d gets himself a nice brand new call, and
of all things, it's W I D X . Can't blame him for trod.
ing in WlJPE, and I 'll bet they didn't give him
much of an allowance when he t urned it in. For
those that don't remember, By Goodman used to be
W6CAL and W6QV. A number of yea", back.
things got a little out of phase, and he found himself
on the East coast with the call W IJPE. ' Anyway,
having known By for a period of years, and knowing
the way he can accomplish things when he seta out
to do them, I can understand how he grabbed
W I DX. Now he has to undo everything he did with
W IJ PE , but I guess that won't be too hard .
A recent visitor to L. A. W88 W9KYM, AI Kahn.
Al is an old timer from South Bend, and was mentioning conditions on the twenty meter band, especially one evening when EIAA was putting out a CQ
on 14230, and almost before the guy could sign,
twenty stations called him right smack on 14230.
Quoting AI, "So why bother!" This was on phone,
which brings up an Interesting point, at least to me.
9 KY ~ 1 lUVl been a braes pounder for yeera, and
although there is nothing unusual about this, it does
get a little unusual when you know AI is the owner
and P rexy of Electro-Voice ~licrophone. As we
have always told AI, since he is the big shot of the
company, the least he could do would be to use one
of his own mikes. I guess he was converted during
the war period. because he is now on phone, but
hastens to add , he will be pounding brass also.
Ano t he r visitor out here last month was W2BJ,
Ha y Farwell. He a nd his family were d riving
around the country and had very lit tle t ime to chew
the rag about DX. I a m sure we will be hea ring
mo re from \V2 BJ on t his litt le subject, however.
W IO K K is wondering if some of t hese high
power stations , when t hey get on a nd CQ DX for
ten m inute" at a crack, expect to have AC4 Y N
answer t hem . He a lso ec hos t he feeling of many
o t her DX men when he wonders why t he dickens d o
some fellows s lide their v.Lo.te on a W 's freq uency
whi le he is working a DX station , a nd t hen call t he
DX stat ion hoping to g rab him. I t is t he same old
story . It causes mo re QR~I resulting many t imes
in t he DX stat ion Jl:ettinj,{ AO hot under t he collar,
that he [ust q uits and doesn't work anyone. George
has been on twenty meter phone for about a month ,
a nd has worked 2.3 countries. He is running a kw
intoa pair of lOO-T Us and uses, an N'C-200jor his
receiver.
H ere's another W9 . . . this time W9~RB .. .
Ha ven ' t heard from Smitty for years. lIe is still
pounding brass as are some of the other pre-war
/it8fl1l: in Chicago including W9PK , ' VOOY, and
W9YF V. Smitty is getting the old Austin radio
club going egain, and we hope that with all those
old timers, tbev will be taking a peek at CQ every
month. W7F X K chips in his bit on behalf of the
W7 's, and at present IS confining his DX to 20 c.w.
Some of the better ones worked include OQ5CE,

\'Q3HJ P, VQ3TO ~ I, Y R.W, \'020, OKI WX,

ZEIJI, \'Q20 W, XZ2K M, UA9CF, and UAIKBA ,
who happens to be a YL named Soya. If it didn't
sound so corny, I would say, "Wbere has Soya
been?" W7F NK runs 800 watts into a pair of
4-250A~. So far, his post-war total is 34 zones, 55
countries.
It is good to hear from W6A Y Z, Bill M a y es. He
and his brother used to operate W6 B YD, whom a
lot of old timers will remember. Bill said he worked
a station signing R AEM and wants to know who the
dickens that is. We can thank G2~1l for supplying
the answer 88 we are lift ing it o ut of his column.

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N ow it seems that RAEl\1 is t he chairman of t he

M oscow radio club, and was the operator on t he
famous "Chelluskin." In recognition of his services,
for which he was made a hero of t he Soviet Union,
he Wall allowed to use the call RAEl\! which was
originally the ship's call.
w bile weare enatchlng newa from G2M I's column,
we might as well keep it up. The QTH of HRI BD
is Box WI, Washingtonville, Honduras. XS~ 16US
is a Swedish station in the Baltic. G6ZO thinks
ZKIAA is genuine; and VP4TR and VP2AT are
brothers. G6RH has worked 100 countries postwar. Then G2M I says a lot of so called pirates on
t he ai r say to QSL via USGB just to give themselves
an ai r of authent icity. Young Peter Clarriccata is t he
Jr OP at G6CL, and bad an interesting contact with
a station sign ing LWFZ on 14 mc who stated. he was
in a n RAF Wellington flying over central Europe.
O( course, t he OM at G6CL is still doing his share
of brass pound ing and works VE8~1J up in Baffin
Island on regular Skeda. Those who have worked
OX2~1J can gSL to 293 Grand Street, B rooklyn,
New York. Hieposition is 65 56' N ., 36 41' W.
T he QTIl 01 ZC6FP is F. R . Pope, RAF stat ion
AQIH, Palestine M . E. F.
W6JFJ is with the telephone company in this part
of the coun try, and is now located in a little town of
Yenno, which as Bruce puts it, is one hundred miles
from nowhere. H e has visions of plenty of rhombics,
but he will have to wait for the lumber sho rtage to
ease up a bit. Apparently it is a good location, and
with 50 or 60 miles of open space for his backyard,
it looks as though he should have some good antennae-At present, W6JFJ is running 175 wa t ts.
W3 ~IS K has been using 10 watts on ten meter
c.w. and on three week ends worked 16 countries.
Total countries post-war is 42. Antenna is only 4
feet above the roof, and is a bi-directional , two clement beam.
From W5ZG we learn that he is on phone for the
first time in twenty-five years. lie is us ing 8 pa ir of
351's in t he fina l with 400 watts input , and a pair
of t he Maine as class D modulntora. Ha rry still ha s
his old ri~ consisting of a pair of 204-As, and he
Mays it still works. W5ZG chiseled a couple of telephone poles which now support a (our section 8JK
ten meter beam.
W8PQQ received a letter from TF3C, bits of
which will be of interest to you . TF3C says he is
hoping that more of the Iceland hams will be able
to re t urn to the air soon. lie is using a receiver
covering 16 to 2200 meters a nd expects to build a
converter pre tty soon in order to hit the te n meter
band . The a ntenna a t TF3C is 8. long wire or about
250 feet. Now t hen the QTH: TF3C, Thorhallur
Pelsson, 39 Hafner Stree t, Akureyri, I celand.
W20L U says be heard OX2:\1J on 14110, and this
may be a good chance to grab that zone. As mentioned before , he is located on t he east coast of
Greenland . W9II U is still d oing allright with his
807 and 40 Wa tts. His post-war total is 36 ccuntries. Dave has been off t he air lately due to two
months sojourn in t he hospital. H e is going to have
to KO back, after which, we hope he will be able to
stay out of the place, get back on the air, and do
some fancy brass pounding. W6EAK works only
twen ty meter c.w. and has 57 countries post-war.
Some of his latest include UA3DA, VR2AA,
CR9AG, CU9AN, a nd for t hose who have worked a
station sign ing K9P, it seems t hat he is an undercove r station (it doesn't take a mind reader to figure
this out ), a nd when he operates, he is a board an a irplane near I celand. If any or you work him and
wan t to send a card, send it t hrough W6 EAK ,

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1813 N. Naomi Street, Burbank, Californ ia. Here

are a. few QTH '8:
J2ABC
Hank McTighe! SCAP, CCS, APO
500, % P. ~ " ' San F rancisco,
Californ ia.
W5KGI-C7 Lt . G. W . Simpson, APO 912, Signal Section, Peiping, China, %
P. M. San Francisco, California.
C3YW
S. II. Chen, % China National
Avia tion, Foochow, China
VR2AA
% P. M. Suva, Fiji Islands
'V8BKP says he has now worked 109 countries;
31 on t wen ty, and 78 on ten. Forty-eight of t he
countries were on phone, and the other 61 on c.w.
George alec says that jWlt getting on the ai rl is t he
real ZD4AB who remarks that to date, he has
received thousands of QSL cards which means someone else was sign ing his call. ZD4AB also says there
are several bootleg stations on the ai rj another one
bei ng ZD-lABE. T here are supposed to be only two
genuine, and they are ZD4AD, T om Hall who
operates on 28 and 14 me, and ZDUE who is on
14,160 phone. Does anyone have any. dope on the
F9's.? F or example F9AH? WSBRP wants to
k now, and 80 do I. ZS6DW says there are a couple
of ZS3's in Southwest Africa, and a ZS4 in Swaziland, and then too, t here is a ZM on the air in
Beehuanaland P rotectorate. WIDYV is back on
t he air and has worked OY3G. He gives his QTH
as Thorahavn, Largani, Feeroee bland. OY3G says
he will QSL d irect.
G6QX needs New Mexico for his ' VAS. Bob says
he will gladly exchange a W9 QSL card for one from
New Mexico. Hey , you better hang on to those
' V9 cards, my friend. Bob relates his son is a golf
and YL addict, and only seems to be interest ed in
Ham radio when he is broke?????
W6ANN, Bill Adams has worked 68 pest-war
countries. Some of his latest include W9JSH/ OX ,
OH30E, UA9DP, SVIEC, and ZE IJU.
W2IOP (he used to he a OX man too) says
OXIC is Dick Eidel W2MHW. His QTH is ee
follows: R . Eidel, AOA/ATC, HWI, APO 858,
c/ o P . 1\1. New York. l.arry has over 70 post-war
now. Latest include, Zll2B c/ o Rock Radio Station,
Gibraltar; CN8MI, LZIXX , a nd W20 UB/ C7.
Haven't heard one single piece of DX news from
an XE stat ion. Some of them must be d oing a little
DX. Also, how about the VE 's7 Speaking of :\Iexico, and getting back to W9KYM. Al Kahn , when
he was out here, he brought up an interesting item
one evening while we were having chow with W6UF
and W6H B. I t seems that a few of t he boys in t he
midd le west arc getting. a little enthused. about heving an Internat ional Convention. T his all started
when Wl)UI ..ked W9KY~1 what he t honght of it.
As a consequence, a few others got ent hused and
now Al wants to know what we think of it . T hey all
seem to think :\Iexico City would be a good spot for
it in 1947. I understand a few of the X E 's have
been asked for their reaction. If any of you fellows
think the idea ha.s any merit, I will be glad to do any
plugging and publicizing I can in this column.
D uring the past couple of months, I have received
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your information, here is what we plan to do. First,
re-establish t he zone and country list: second have
a World wtde DX Contest next year, probably in
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in mind. As you know, lJQ is a relatively new megazine but is growing like the dickens. We do not
have the staff to prepare all of the details necessary
to sponsor various events, and at this time, no more
details can be given . However, with the eeme old
cooperation I have always gotten from you fellows,
I feel sure next year will see the gang at CQ sp?Dsoring these events. The one and only World Wide DX
contest which Radio sponsored before the war was
considered by most hams to be a. pretty good thing.
Since the ARRL sponsored a DX contest in March,
lasting nine days, we t hought we would have a eontest on the ot her half of the year and holding it over
two successive week-ends: eac h week-end to consist
of three days. This feature most of the fellows
seem to like very much, and we have plans on making it an annual affair. When the war came a long,
that ended that. Now, however, I believe we can
pick up where we left off with this World Wide DX
contest.
On the DX marathon, many of you will remember
it ran a period of one year. I will be interested in
getting your reaction on whether or not we should
get gomg with this little contest aga in.
The list of frequencies on pa~e 56 are picked from
the various contributors and It is hoped some of
t hese will be of help. Naturally some of these DX
stations will be found on fre~ uencies ot her than
those shown due to using v.f.o. s In ot her words I
cannot guarantee when you tune your receiver to
any of these frequencies the guy will be there waiting
for you. But heck, things are tough everywhere !
Well, that's all this poor mill will handle t his
month, so I'll see you on the low end.
Here's hoping all of you get some nice, shiny
brand new zones and countries for Christmas. Merry
Christmas and a Happy New Year to a ll of you.

YL'S FREQUENCY
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country, Liz turned out to be as charming a nd

interesting as her let ters. She sha res our philosophy
that as a hobby radio can add a great deal to one's
life, but it must under no circumstances become a n
ell-consuming obsession. 3CDQ have been her call
letters right from the beginning in '22, at which time
there were then less than a dozen YLs in the country. Although we've been unable to tabulate t he
exact number, careful estimate indicates t here are
over 500 YI.6 now active.
Liz' interest in radio actually da tes back to 191 7
when she obtained a commercial ti cket while still in
high school. She later taught radio in army hospitals at Camp Meade and Fort McHenry for rehabilitation work, as a member of the Woman's
Radio Corps. In 1921 she came to the Bureau of
Standards, in the capacity of radio aide, and has
been there ever since. While talking with Liz we
learned that she's an accomplished linguist, and
part of her work at the Bureau has included translatinf!: technical articles from German, French ,
Spanish a nd Itali an.
Liz' duties at the Bureau have-included work with
t he primary standard of radio frequency, which
later became WWVj she also formed reference lists
for the Proceedings of t he Institute of Radio
Engineers, of which she is a member.

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During the war":Liz was Assistant Radio Aide of

the WERS in charge of nine control stations and
about forty WERS operators, as well as a dozen
AWVS ope.
Active in YL affaire, Liz is a past president of the
YLRL. She can be heard on 40 meters on 7220 kc.
Her rig consists of a 61.6 xtal oscillator. an 807
doubler, lOOTH final with 1800 volts on the plate
and 200 watts output. Her receiver is an HRO.
From what Liz says about the number of hams in
Washington, added to a group of high-powered ODes
right in her own neighborhood, guess she needs
every watt she can squeeze out!

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Parenthetically, assuming the arc on your
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circle distance of your contact by noting the
number of degree divisions along t he arc from
you to the other end of the QSO. Multiply this
number by GO and the answer will be the distance
in nautical miles. Remember t o count the degrees
along the arc toward the DX ; you will notice that
these degrees are numbered in the opposite direction , i.e., from zero on the est ablished equator to
ninety over your shack . If t he other stat ion is
located more than ninety degrees away, of course
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It would be easy to ela borate this type of
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antenna was pointed away from the sun at B the

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left-handed polarization. Although there is some
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[from page 18 )
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circuit using Iour Su6/SQuAs handles this load

nicely. The topside layout appears in F1"g. 8. As
usual a 17" x 14" x 3" chassis was used with the
t hree filament transformers in t he center, the
bleeder resistors in the rear and t he tubes in line
a long the front. The bleeder mounting is very
important as these resistors must dissipate CO IIsiderable heat. The resistors arc heavy duty
uni ts supported by t he porcelain pillar insulators mounted on metal brackets. The heavy
sockets of the rectifier tubes are mounted well
above the chassis to increase the voltage breakdown safet y factor. The fila ment transformers
are war-surplus purchased at 2.50 each and
have a good 10,000 volt insulation.
The under chassis view in Fig. 9 shows the
mounting of t he two oil-filled 8 )'f filter condensers . T he small 3 henry choke adm ittedly hID;
little fi ltering effect, but takes much of the grind
off the rectifier tubes tha t would occ ur in a
st raight conde nse r input filter. The 75 ohm resistor
in t he h-v lead provides a m easure of pro tection
in ease of fil ter condenser failure. 'Vith an input

of 220 volt. a.e., the power supply delivers 2950

volts at no load. The plate t ransformer which is
not m ounted on this chassis, is an over-size a ffair
weighing close to 150 pounds . It is m ounted
under the shack floor out of.sight and out of m ind
since it will deliver 2200 volts a t practically any
load without t he least grumble. It is anot her
bargain arti cle costing only $ 1.50. be lieve it or
not! Look for t hem in your local power company
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T he addition of wire sc reening to observe the
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of J o nes plugs a nd cabling from sta ge to stage he..s
proved a great convenience whenever necessa ry
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ext reme righ t of the Cornet Pro receiver controls
t he high voltage and filament circuits in the d rivel'
a nd fi nal a m plifie r stages . T he exciter is seen
bet ween the receiver a nd t he rack-a nd-panel
final amplifier.
Good e-o regulation is obtained by biasing
the driver and final a m plifier till t hey draw 100
milliam ps ke1j-up . U nder this condit ion t he
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2150 volts key-douJn. T he hom emade exciter delivers about 12 wat ts. The d river grid current
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current is about 80 rna . The final amplifier grid
current is 150 rna and the fina l plate current
425 rna. K eying is a ccom plished in the exciter .
At the time t his was written t he ant enna was
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The Drifting 6 Meter Sk;p
V-Il-F amateurs have often observed how the
E. -creeted short-ski p apparently drifts from one
call-letter district to another. \V4s generally
work first the \\' Is and W2s with strong signals.
Then progressively hear and work wSa, W9s,
W58 and w~k Sometimes it is the other way
around, but always the E, short-ski p seems to be
changing in len gth and direction. Possibly a
minor portion of this variation may be due to the
inevitable decrease in the density of the E. cloud.
Although this would make it appear as though the

inner edge of the skip zone were expanding, it

will be found upon examination of Fig. 1 that
much of the drifting of the skip ZODe must be due
to the motion of the reflecting E. cloud.

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The drifting of the S-and &-meu,r skip is the

basis of a scientific paper now in preparation by
the author. Upon reducing certain observations
it has heen found that the drifting of the E.
cloud may be interpreted as a function of t he
winds in the ionosphere through the variations in
the length and direction of the short-skip. This
work is based solely upon t he systematic reporting and recording of amateur stations .
Although in the preparat ion of this paper some
t(,11 to twelve outstanding dates in t he history of
t he old 5-meter band could have possibly su pplied
the necessary data, it was decided that more
stations were active (due to the lack of crystal emtrol regulations, Ed.) and more reports passed on
J une 5th, 1038.
Fig. f illustrates the midpoints or points of incidence in the ionosphere for 30 selected contacts
betwc.. n li30 and l SOO EST on J une 5. All of
these contacts were noted for their very strong
signals both ways, and for the minimum effect of
fading. Basically, one may consider this area of
the midpoints to be the heart of the E. cloud .
This group of contacts also represents the a rea
within which 80% of the total number of shortskip contacts were made. Some DX contacts are
made through the scattering of the signal from
the sides or edges of the maximum density of the
E, cloud. A certain number of contacts falling
outside this general mid point area also suggests
the presence of a minor E, cloud to the south of
the one illustrated in Fi g. f. T hese smaller clouds of
E, ionization are for the most part short-lived,
but momentarily capable of erratic signal scattering outside and inside the major skip zone.
I n Fig. S the midpoints of 50 contacts in the
half-hour period between 1815 and 1545 EST nre
plotted. Again these contacts were noted for their

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the E. cloud is apparently diflusing by spreading
out both in t he north and sout h directions as it is
blown along by an easterly wind. A rough estimation of the velocity of drift can now be made
and it is found to be approximately 320 kIn/hr.
This agrees excellently wi th t he observations of
Eyfrig in Germany who found in 1940 the velocity
of drift to be as high as 380 km/hr.
Fig. -4 represents the third time interval, or
1930-2000 EST. During this period it was only
possible to find 15 contacts to meet the established requirements of excellent signal strength
and little fading. T his is due primarily to the very
few stations on 5 meters operating from west of
the ~l issj ssippi River and to the furthe r d iffusion
a nd recombination of the free electrons in the E.
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What We Can Learn From E.

In this examination we have t ranslated t he
observed evidence or the drifting or t he E.
short-skip into its t rue cause a circulatory wind
in the ionosphere. T he value of obtaining further
data by this met hod should not be underestimated. At this time a knowledge or the circulation and velocit y of air currents in the upper
atmosphere can be or particular value. T oday in
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about the temperature and constituents of the
E region of the ionosphere. This research is
bound to have far reaching consequences for the
present conception of the working of the ionosphere necessitates extremely high temperatures
at these levels. Meteorological sciences are of the
opinion that an iso-baric surface exists at the
110 km height of the E layer. Previously, moot
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long-enduring meteor trains. This type of infermation is generally difficult to interpret while
requiring extended mathematical analysis.
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this project will not only aid in establishing the
cause of E., but will provide further data neceesary in long-range weather forecasting.

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Q.cillau-- NtlHl . . . . . . . . . . . Mar., 1945; 20
Quart. Cry.ta1 fini-hinc-Nebd .. . . . . ... .. J uly, UM5; 16
81uqieb Cry.taJa1'-Rod. .. . . . . .. ... . . . . .. . Oct.. 1946 ; 33

FREQUENCY MODULATION

Nov., HH6; 28
Dee., HH6 ; 23

January, 1946 . . . . . .. . . . , . . . . .. .. .. .. . 3..

Al arth, 19-16 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . 42
April . UM6 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ... . .. ... . . . . . . . . . . . 41S
Ma y, 1946 . . . . . .. . . . . . .. . .. . . .. .. .. ... 32
l une. 1946 . . . .. .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .. .. .. 48
AUCUllt, 19-16 ......... ... . .. ............ 38

70

Amendme nt for 1213 me band . . . . . . . . . . . . . J an., 1916 ; 38

Cooperation wit b Amateur-D'LaFltw' . . . ... Feb.. 19-16 ; 30
RuIN and Reculations Re&ardinc Amateunl
J une, 19016; II- J uly : 2....

Sept.,1946 : 9
~far . 1946; 9

CALLS HEARD

Pie~EIeetric

FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION

.
Sarrow Baed F),I for Amateur Use-8obm .
Sarrow Band F),I Ezciter-BGbb, . ... . . .
Sarrow Band F),I Tranemitter-8obku . ....

July, HH,S; 21

BOOK REVIEWS AND CATALOGS

Cata!og-Allitld . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . ... .
Cataloa:-Al.im.cJq . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
CataloK-Cmtralab
May. 19-16: 38
Cataloa:-Cond""ur Prod'ucl,
.
Catalog-Eimac
.
~talo&-EI~JrO'-Vo1tt . . . . . . . . .. .
.
CatalOlt-Gm".al El~
.
Cat aloc-lIl/tTO'It
.
E1eet ronie Dictionary-Cook. and Ma,.nu .
Ele me ntary Engioeerlng E1ectronica- K r al'Ml"
Oeneral Electrio Tube M a nual
.
l naide the Vacuum Tube-RidtIr .. .. .... . .
My kroy Bulletin
.
S tanCOI' Breebure
.
B)'lvania Tube Book .. . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .
T~evillion Simplified- K __ . . . . .. . . . . . . . .
Tube BoolrJet . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

DX-Btcker . . . )'I ar. 19-16. 014 ; April, -10 ; ),Iay, 33; J une. 33 ;
July, 36; Au., 33 ; Sept., 34; Oee., 37; Nov. 34 ; Dee. 32
International P~\.ag'e Rat~ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct., 1946; 33
S tartinc a DX Joaetory- Li_ . . . . . . . . . . . . Oee.. 1946 ; IS

Beat Thill O net . . . . . ..

Aug., 1915: 26
Brief for tbe Ham-Tall", . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. Aug., 19U; 26
Commercial Operating- Wal'1ll!r . . . . . . . . . . . . June, 1915; 13
C rystal Cbirp.
Sept.. 19-15; 33-Nov.. 19--15; 42
DflIIIienin& the Ha m Sback-uKa.tll11Q" ... .. Sept., 1916 ; 30
Double CulTCnt Ke)i n. Sntem for Radio .\
Carrier CulTCnt- W allo"" .... . . . . . . . . . . N ov., 1916 ; 18
Freq ue ncy Allocation Chart ... .. . .. . . . . . . Al1&. 1915; 20
Fliltbt Radio O$cer-Lt Kad >n4 '" . . . . . . . . M..... 19015; 1
Flexible Sba!tin&-LCi! KatA...a" . . . . J an.. 1946 ; 22
Get On Tb. Beam-fA Kadlltll"
. April. 19-45; 11
Great Ci rcle :Iotap San Franci&c:o
. ~ov., 19--16 ; 2-1
G l eat Circle :Iolap-Waahington
. Dec.. 19-16 ; 28
HMta La Vie t.a-.U~
. oee., 19--15 ; 32
Interna tional POBt&&e Rates . .. .. . .. .. .. . . o-c. 19--I6j 33
K POw Your Q R),I -D, 1.0 '/#:ur
. Au&. 1946; 15
Layi na a Bea.m on the T"'ee~olf
. Dee., 1946; 23
Lile-Ralt Transmitter-&.6ord
. April . 19015 ; IS
Lookin& Into the Futur&-M~
. Feb., 19-1S; 2'

co

..

Mat ter of Time- Le Ka, hman.

.
Q RBf QTE1'-And~,on
.
Record Pla)er- Brier
.
Round the World Time Chart
.
R ust y Riga . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . .
R ust y RiiS .. . . .... ... . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Radio in the CAP--8t,llo
.
fklsyua- Worsttt" . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Shock-Proof ~lountings-LaWf'~
.
Sporadic E-A Problem for Amateur Reeearch
- FerTell
.
S tac ked Carw,-Lawrlmce
.
The :\ lagic E.C.O. - 110 110
War Aio't Changed the H am.... . . .. . . . ...
W. A. A . Surplw
.
WERS at \York-Ktnl'lesl . .. . . . .. .. . . .. ..
' VERS
.
Wife 's Eye View-Johruo,,.
Wired Wireless- P ottp,.

,nvv-

LaIlJrtrU:, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

ZCAA-Ntbd
Zeh Bouck

.
, " ., . .. . ..... .

July, 19-15; 13
Mar., 19-15; 17
Aug., 1945; 1-1
oe., 19t5: 24
Aug., 19-15; 28
"lay, 19-15; 33
D ee., 19-15; 20
~h.y , IIH6; 29
J uly, 19-1.5 : 28
Dee.,
A pril,
D ec.,
M a y,
0 00.,
Mer.,
~lay ,

July,
J une.
M ar.,
Feb.,
Oet.

1946 ; 21
19-1.5 : 25
1 9 ~ 6 ; 2-1
1916 ; 14
19t6; 50
1 9~6 : 10
19-15: 26
19-16; 18
19-15; 11
19015; 28
19-15: 7
19-16 ;-16

MOBILE and PORTABLE

(,u: V.II.F. a nd U.H .F.,

TRAN S~flTTERS

a nd

RECE IVI NG)

MODULATORS AND MODULATION

(tu: RADIO T ELEPHO NY a nd TRANSMITTERS)

_._-- - - - - - - - - - - - - -

Two-:\["ter Coaxial AnteDDa-AI1dr.llI' . . . . .

Trawnnitt.er Tester-Elutronitl SpeciaU" Co.. .
V. H . F . Transmitter Kit-HSiU'01l .. . .. ...
VariaCl~entral Radio
.
Vol~J.m Meter-R. C. P
.
VomllJt-Mdfurdo Sibtr
.
Wa ter-Tigh t C lamp- II. II . BlA(Jgi . . . . . . . . .
W ire Strip per K it-GI1ltral C. mMt
.
l a- II Meter Convertor- Wa~proof . . . .. ..
54 Card well Reooiver-CardU'ell
.
6J Watt Tran!lmitter-.\fKk
,
.
1.'iA C ommu nica tiona R eceiver- eolli1l. . . . .

POWER SUPPLY
D esig n of Safe Power S up plie.- Prtd o n . . ...
Grid Cont rolled Su p ply~beTl, . . .. . . . .. . .
Volta ge-Regulated Supply- Dol1C11N
.
Volta ge-Regula ted Su pply-eo~ . . . . . . . . .

Ama teur G rou nd Plane Ante nna-Worl.1I.op.

Antenna Coaxial-8trdu. .. . . .. . . . . . .. . ..
Antenna Ground Plane-AndrNl . . . .. . . . . . .
B Battery- National Carbon . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
CalClulator-A Uiai.. .. . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .
Capacitor, molded bakelite-Atrowz. . . . .
Cardioid Microphone-Ekdro-Voiu.. . . . . . . .
C hokee- Nalional . .. .. .. .. .. .. . ...
CoaJtial Cable Connector -Barktit' et WiUioB"...

Mar., 19-16 ; M
J une, 19-16 ; U
M ay, 19-16 ; 36
Dee., 1946; .52
M ay, 19-16; 46
May, 1946 ; 4ft
April, 1~i6; M
AUK., 1946; 3.5

Building a 250 W a t t Phone T ra Damitw A nla.q, . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . , . .

Cathode 1\lodulator-J"onu
,. . , .
C1au B M odulatonl- Britr . . . . . . . . . . . .
Medium P ower P hone Tranamitte.r-Jonu . ,
Why 100% M oduIa tionf--8ilptIt' . . . . . . . .

ton . . . .. .. .. .. . . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. . . .. . . .

J uly, 1946 : 40
Se pt .. HH6; U
June, 19-16 ;
19-16 : 42
Nov., 19-16; 40
Dec., 19 -16;
Oct., 1916; 42
Oct., 19-16 ; 48
June, 19-16: 4.4.
AUi., 1016: 35
000., 19-16 : 42
Dee., 194.6; 44.
Dee., llH6;.52
Nov., 19-16 : 4.2
Nov., 1946: 40
June, 1946 : 4-1
Nov.. 194.6 : 40
Sept.. 10t6 ; 40
June, 194.5; Z6
Dec., 194.6; M
Sept., 1946; 4.2
Feb., 19-16 ; 38
May, 1946: 36
July, 1946: 40
July, 19t6 : 4.0
oa.. 19-16: 4.8
Au&:.. 1945: 34.
Mar., 1915; 29
Sept., 19-&5; 33
Bept., 19-16: 63
N ov.. 19-16; 40
Aug., 19-16: 35
D ec., 1046 : 42
Nev., 19-16: 40
July, 1946 : 40
July, 19-16 ; 40
May, 19-16: 47

December, 1946

19-16 ;
1916 :
1915:
1!H5;

22
25
18
25

High Fre quency Prop3.gation-Conklin . . . . . . Aug., 19!6; 29

Predictions-Ftrrtll . . . . J une, 1946 : ao-July, 35-Augu:lt, 32Sept., 29-Qot., 36-Nav., 32-Dec. , 30
Solar Static Polariaation . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . D 3C., 19 13; 13
Sporadic E -A Problem for Amateur Research
- FmTl'lll
. Dec.. 1946; 2 1
8uWlpotll a nd Cosmic Statio-PnTtll
. A pril, 19-16: l j
Super-refraction-BwaDord ... . .. . . . . . . . . . o, 1946; It
6 M eter DX- FnTtJ1l .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Feb.. 19-16 ; 18

RADIOTELEPHONY

oe..

April,
J une ,
J an.,
J une,

PREDICTIONS AND PROPAGATION

NEW APPARATUS AND EOUIPMENT

CoaJlial Dipole-EnqinM'i1lD E lulronie . . . .

Condeneer, Air Trimmer-McMurdo Silur ..
Colli~ V.F.O
" . . . . . .. .. .. .
Color Code Guid_AUiai . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Crystal Controlled Test O.8cillator- Blilfl/.. .
CrYJtal Booket-COMOrd
.
Crystal S witch-aa.ka
.
CrYJtala-BlileJI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
D ouble Action B u.v:-Meldlan
.
Feed-Thru CaplI.citora-eorllell.Dubilitlf" . . . .
Frequency Computer-Amtlt'. HJtdromat1a . . .
Frequency ~feter--BrOU'ninq. . . . .. . . . . .
H eat D w ipa ti n.v: Connectonl-EiJ1le1e. . .. .
I- F Transformere- National . . . . . . . . . . . . .
KP-81 Recelver- Pitlt'aon ... . . . ...........
Lever Action Switcbee-MaUOt1/
.
LIahtwei&:ht OacillOlloope- Waurma1l . . .
M icrophone- Unipllr-=U
.
Microphone Btand!l-8nl/d
.
Narro w Band FM Tranamitter-8onar
.
NG-46 Receiver- Na lional . . . . . . . .
N oise Limiter- Nalional. .. . . .. . . . ... .. . .
OeeillOlcope- Nalimwl
.
P hone-C .W. Tranamitwr-TrallamiUinq P.qpt.
P1aIItic 1'11m Condener-Condt.,u... Produd4
P lywood Antenna 1.1aat . . . . . . . . .. . .
Plywood Portable Mut-PlJ(lDO(ld
.
P ower Measurement Lamps-8l1lPllnia ....
R- F Coilll- Barka et Willia m.on. . . . . . . .
Radio Reference Data HlI.ndbook--Fedt.ral . .
Reeletor Guide-I. R. C
.
R ota ry Beam S up por t- Wind Turbin . .
.g tlieou Cr)'!ltal Convertera-SlilPania . . . . . .
Solder-Tri-Cor, .. . . .. .. . .. . .. . . . .... . .
8-38 Reoeiver-Hallicrafttr . , . . . . . .
gub-Ouacer Trll.Dllformera- UniUd .... .

Sept., 1916 : 4{)

Nov., 1916; 36
Sept., 19 16; 40
~pt ., 1916; 010
M ar. , 1916: 5.5
J uly , 1915 ; 32
Ap ril, 11)16: 43
D ee., 1916 :;14
Sept., 1916: 42
Aug. 1916 : 35
ge pt., 1916; 42
Dec.. 19'8;-1.2

J II.Il., 19t5 ;
M ay, 19-16 :
Dec., 19'.5 :
Au.v:., 19-16 :
Jan., 1945 :

22
18
18
:15
16

RECEIVING
('fIll al,Q:

V,B.F, and U.B.F.)

B&Illl ReBel!: LoudApeak8nl-Jonu. . . . .. . . .

Curing BCI on 10 M eten-W!MPS
.
Cathode Couplini for PaQoramlc-P~
Clurmall . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Eyee for Your Reoei ver-Popki~_" . . .
FM-AM Superhet-Mal! . .. . . . . . . . . . . . ..
F M CODve.rter- HaUicrafltr. . . . . ..
H i&:b Performance COnverter-Bowma1l . . .
I mproviDK Receiver Belectivity~on lli,. . . . .
Kn ow Your Q RM-D. La Fleur . . . . . .
Low Ooee H -F Superhet~N'
,
Panoramic Reception-PollGc1. . .. . . .
R-C Superheterodyne for 1}( It 2 MeeJ onu
.

July, 19-16 : 33
A pril, 194 6: 54
AUK.,
Mar..
Aug.
J uly,

tw.,
M ar. ,
Au.v:.,
Feb.,
Sept.,

1946; 1~
1946; 22
19t6: 10
1945::i3
1946 ; 12
1946 ; 18
1946 ; 15
1946 : 18
19-15: 16

Dec., 19-16; U.

THEORY
(.u alN : Ao teo.nu - " t:Icro_vM- P rediotio za-V.H.F. and

U.H.F.)
Biuina Methodt-MaUMtD. . . . . . . . .. . . . . . .
D on't LIlt I t PhlUle You-Andtlf".m . .. . .. . ..
Electron Gun-801dlU'ell . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . .
Fundamenta ls of Radar-Pinld.u,'n. . . . .. . .
Griffin Triple D etection Superhet. . . .. . .. ..
Introducti on to Flexible Wavei\lide.-Winclell
Know Your M eter-N~ . . . . . . . . . .... . ...
On The Beam-Rod . . . . . ... .. . .. .. ... .. . .
Parallel Reeilltance Chart-MtrcAant..... .. .
Plate Dip-Middleton . .. .. . . .. . . ... ... . . . .
Radar at Work-u Ka.lman . . . . . . .. . .
Rullo Amateur'J WOnlkheet 11RectifioatioD..
Radio Amateur'. Woriulbeet 12 Super-regenereuoc . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . .. . . , . .
Rad io Amateur'. Work4heet 13 P ush-pull . .
R ad io Amateur'. Wor kAheet #4 ADu-noiee . .
Radio Ama teur'. Wor ksboot 15 A.F.C . Citcuia . . .. . .. .. . . . . . . . .. .... . . . . . .
Radio Amateur'. Workabeet #6 FM D iacrimlnatonl . .. . .. . . .. .. .. .. . . . . . .. .. .

April,
Sept.,
Feb.,
N ov..
May,
Nov.,
Jan.,
Jan.,

July,
June,
Dec.,
June,

1945; 13
194.5 ; 11
19-46; 29
194.5: 13
19-&5: 11
1946 ; 2;)
19-46; 12
1946: 23
19405: 20
-19 46 ; 3:i
19U: 27
1945: 27

July, 194 5; 23
Aug., 194.5 ; 2-&
Sept., 1946; ss

oe .,

194 5; 28

Nov., 194 5; 3..

71

Radio Ama te ur's '\"oruheflt

17 x-v-c

Cir.

cuita
Dee., 194.5 j 36
Radio Amateur'l:I Woduheet #8 ~lulti~Phaae . J an., 194.6 ; 3 1
Rsdi o A ma~ur'l:I Worbheet h Thermal Noiee Feb . 19-16; 32
Rftliata n'-Capac1tanCfl ~ ornol':r&m
.
Solar :':tat ic Polariaa ti on
.
f:poradic E- .\ l"rohlf'm for .\ ma lf'ur Reeeercb
- l'tTTrll..
. . .. . .. .
.
f;uDltpot E nigma , The (:r~t - Jldli1Cf'U d:
" uldrd ,Jr. _. . .
.
.
T elevision Pic k-up T u bN --.sovtAIA'Il
.
Television ~a n ning ~.f\ou'JllN'Il . .
.
.

~Iar ..

19-16 ; 40
Ij ee ., 19-16 ; 13
1 ~ .

19-16 : 21

X uv., HH6 ; 30
N ov., 1 9-1 ~ ; 22
S ep r., 19" .';; 22

TRANSMIITING
(.n al MJ : Radiotel pphOIl)- Tu!.lee- F requency .\ Iooula t iun-

\ II .F. and U. H .F .)

AC"YN - Su rtT ...

c-w

..

:\ IRU'I! K ilowal t --.Il attll eulI

.
Di8pla cN llachd ur 'l:I t:ipecial -J liller
.
Double C urre nt Ke)'ing S)'lItem for Radio &
Carrier Current - W illia".. . . .
.
.
Gf'tting o n the Air From A ... hoe ItQ:t- B reu-

I ,M" . . . .
.... .... .
.. .
Jt F Operation of Parallel Tube8-Jonu

.
Ufe Raft Transmitter-Rafford . . . . .. .
.
l oal Y Kilo\loatt-LrKa...Iunon . . .
.
.
' .01\' Cost 450 W a UlI of C .W.-J",""
.
M edium Power Pho ne Tra l1lunitter-JOfUI .
M OPA- Bou-nto " .
.
K anow Band F:\I Tra namitler-&bu
.
Por table CW Equi pme nt -Midddton
.
Portable Mobile-Brift' . . .
.
.
Pae X euse M)' F1a&ho, er- Kopddqj
.
P utting t he Ya euum Conde nser to WorkStriktT . ..
. ........... . ....... ..
f'impl e T ra nsmn ter Cont rol Pauel- Jla,..dm
T ailor Made Porta ble-Borg
.
Wired wireleee Trammitter-Potter
.
Wa t t Bqueezer I - Hod . . . . . .. . .. .
.
3 T u be J":ilowa tt- N icholll
.
5 n a nd V. F . O.-Jonu
.
75 Wa t ta i n F ull Oree8- Kah n
.
.
100 Wa t t Exciter Unit- Ll'tDi
100 Wa UlI o n 5 Band$- Bn-nard
.
200 Wa t t Phone &: C. W.- Anld,,_
.
400 Wa tt" on 144 M C- IAKa. ....man and l Ull

j\la)" , 194.:i ; 7
J)CfO . , HH.6; I .
N ov., 1946 : 9
Nov., 19-16; 18
1946; 3-1
19"6: 25
IM5; 13
19-16 : 11
19-16 ; 30
194.6; 25
o., 19-15; U
April, 19-16 ; 9
oe., 19-16 ; 23
Aug. 19-15: 16
J une, 1M 6 ; 23
:\l a r.,
Bept .,
April,
July,
:M a r. ,
Au, .,

Aug., 19"6; 11
July, 19-16; 31
oa., 1946 ; 28
JUDe, 1945; 17
Sept., 19" 6; 12
J u ne, 1946 ; 2 1
Dee., 1045 ; 13
Sept.. 19-16; 2-1
Ma y , 19-16; 9
M ay , 19-1.5 ; 15
J a n., 1945; 22
A pril. I M 6; 3 4

TUBES
E miMion Type Tube C hecker- N cbd
. J une, 1945; 20
OI,592-G. E'. . . .. ..
. April, 1946 ; 42
n eat Odaipatina: Con necton-EifIWK
. N ov., 1946; 42
lIi,h Frequency 8<X'keu-M.,b'~
. Me r., J9-I8; 46
Kly"trona-Fer-rdl. .................. . July, 19--16 : J6
Tranllmit ting Tube M aousl--G. B
. Ott .. 1946; 4S
Trallllmitting Tube 8ocket.- Job _ ...... Aug., 1946; 35
T ube Mnual-8.,lMnio
. April, IM6 ; 59
T .JOO-- T al/lor
. Dee., 1946; 44
TB-35--Tavlor
. M ar. , 19-16; 48
\"70-0 - United
. M ay, 1946 ; 36
2C39-Ei-.c
. Jan., 1946; 34
3--15(lA-Ei"..c
. May , 1946; 38
4250A-Eimae
. oa., 1945; 40
5562- United
. D ec.. 1946 ; -12
6J6- Miniat ure Dual Triode
. June, 19-1 5; 30
tiBD6 / 12BD6-Cathode Type ~}O. Amplifier. N ov.. 1946 ; 42
6N4-U-H-F Triode
. May, 19 45 ; 34.
812 11- United . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M ay, J946;36
833A-Tal/lor ............ ........... .... Feb.. 19-16 ;38
12AT6-Duple:l Diode Hi,h Mu Triode .... M ay , 1946 ; 3S

V.H.F. AND UHF.

('H GUo: Fl"equeney Modulat ion-Reeeivin&-Tranamit ti nll:

Antenna. for the V~B F Raw - PIn'. .. . . . . .

Belt Polariution
'"
DX aod Mierovolu on the V.H.F. -B~t. .

72

Feb., 1946 ; 25
Oct., 1946 ; 2'9
M ay, 1946; 23

E lementary U-H -F Antenn.u-LI/ndi

Exciter for the H-I MC Band - .lla l/
Esciters for the ~ e"" BlI. nds ~Brin
F~r -A~l Superhet - Jia l/ . . .
Good Poin t-to-Poin t Ante nna - Lrtnt:l
H ig b Gain 112 xtc Be:t.m --elapma" .
lIa ndy T a lkie on the 1-11 ~fC -logri .
High Output Tra D!lmitt er --.sow.t.llIL'tlll _
Line of S-ight Trll ~mmi on -Houd
~ takhing 8 t uha for t he \ .H .F.- Foz . .

.
.

.
.

.
.

~ I obile Tra~h'er -lJot&ma n _

April, 19-15 ; 9Sepe., J9-15 ; 7

Oet., 194.5 ; 7
Aug. , 19-15 ; JO
J ul>', 19--15 ; 7
:\Iar., 19 -15 ; 15J an.. 19 16; 7
Jan., 19-16 ; 30
.", p ri!, 19 -15 ; 2S
Aug., 19 -16 : 23
J une, 19"5 ; 7
JuI)' , 19-15; 10
Feh ., 19-16 ; 23
Nov. , 19-15: 7
xe-; 1115; 10
Feb., 1916 ; 7

l>w h to T alk He ndie T al kie- C"'l1JIa 8.

Rack a nd Panel for IU ~J C -Jon ,. .
R-C Superhet -llot&ma" . . .. .. .. . .. .
R-r Amplifier-BritT
.
Superhet Con verter l or I H ~I C-BO!'rna n .
Two xteter :\ Iohile Heceiver-U'oIl8owicz and
B rin". . . . . . .
SeIJt. , 19111 ; 20
V-II- F Adap te r-PoL. . . .
Aug.. 1915 ; 1
U.H .r.-Co" klin .. April, UHO; 5.5-:\Iay, 52- J une. as- J uly, 37Aug.. 37-Sept., 3 7-oct . 39-Nov.. a6- ' >ec. 3-1
J6 Elemen t Array lor 1-1-1 :\IC -lItTWer. . .. Oce., 19..6; 11
420-150 :\IC Tralllleeinr-Pott"'
,. :-00\"., 19-15 ; 26

WA R SUPPLIES
Arm)' Surplus Ha d io :\lateriala-TaUq,
Con vert ing tbe Art / 13- Rafford. . . . . . . . ..
Con" ert ing the :;CR27-1X - .l/o,, _
1.01\' C'll't H- r guperhet -BC406A-Gn.t
xt oee on :;urpIWl-Gu'WtGn . . . .. .
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1946 : 26
19--16; 13
1916; 18
IlH6 ; IS
19..6 ; 27
Dec., 19U; 3-1

YL NEWS AND ACTIVITIES

Firat YL in Ge rmany O-lAA8 . . . . . . . . . . . Det., 1916 ; 64
xteet tbe YL-Gro..man . . . .
Feb.. 19" 5; 13
The YL'" Frequency ~Blatk ..... April, J9--I 6 ; 4-1 -June.-I0July, " 2-AuII:. 36--8f'pt., 3ti--Qct., -I O- ~ ov. , 38-Df'C., 40
YI. Opera tors -Bit n . . . . . .
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Aug.. 19-15; 22
Wife '" Eye ' ie w- Jolln, oll .
July. 1916 ; IS

ZERO BI AS ( Ed itcrtel)
Ama teur Jtedto . . . . . . .. .. . . . . . .. . . .. . .
Oct., HII6 ; 5
Ba nd Opening . . .
Feb., 19-16: 5
BCL Corcpleiuta .
Au g., J946 ; 7
Call1'O"umber ASlIig nment. . . .. .. .. .. .. . .
J e n. , 1946; 5
C ha in System OX .. .. . . . . .. . . .. . . . . . . . . . . Nov., 1946; 5
CIaae D License . . . . . . . . . . . . . . M ay, 19-16 : 7, June. 19--16 : 5
Cry"taI Con t rol. . . . .. .. .. ..
.. .. .. .. . . . Sepr. , 19--16; 5
C-W-Phone Subdivisions
Oct., 19-16 ; 5, Dec. 19--16 ; 5
OX
J uly, J9--I6 ; 5
OX T ec hniquee . . . .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
Au, ., J9-16; 5
Editorial Errc ra . . .. .. .. . . .. . .. .. .. .. ..
N ov.. 1946; 5
Emer,enC)' O perations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Oct ., J9-I5; 5
Fo ne ven us C .W
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M ay. 19--15; 5
Frequency Allocation.. Jul)', 19--15 ; 5, Aug., 19--1 S; 5, D ec., 19--15;"
G reen Ligh t to lla ma b)' FCC. . . . . . . . . . .. .. ~I ar. , 194.5, 5
Introducing C Q . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . .
J an., 1945, 5
Louing Time . . . , .. .. .. .. . . . .. .. .. . . ..
June, 19--15; 5
:\Iicrowa\"e PotentialitiN
Feb., IQ.i6: 5
Sew FCC Regulations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . May, 194.6 ; 7
"One World.. . .
April, 19..6; 7
Operating T echniquee. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . N cv., 19-16 ; 5
Portable and Mobile Operation . . . . . . .. .. ... June, 1046 ; 5
Portable Mobile Operation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . AUK.. 19-16; 5
Poet-war LiceIlllling . . . . . . .. . . . . . .. .. .. .. . . . Feb.. 19-15: 5
Public Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Dec. 19"6 : 5
QSL'lI . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . July, 1946; 5
Rio Conference . . . . .. .. .. . . .. . . . . . . . . ... Nov., 19-15; 6
Safet)' Firwt. . . . .. . . . .. .. . . .. . . .. . . . . . . Nov., 19--16 : 6
April, J945; 6
Second T houghtll on the CBS .. .. . , . ..
Shared Frequeneies.. .. . . . . . ..
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AUII:., 1946 ; 5
Surplua
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M er., 19--16; 5
The a am Ande
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Mar., 1943; 6
What 'a Your Io'requeney!
Oct., 1946; 6
When J oh nny Comee M archina: Home . . . . . . . June, JlW5; 6
Whither the WE RS1
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Sept., UH~ ; 6

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NC-2-40D
Beauty goe s deep in the NC -2 .40D. Deep inside the
chassis ports of wotc hlike precision ore a sse mb le dwith pa instaking care . Ca refu lly d e sig ne d mechan isms
e na b le th e co ntro ls to resp ond to yo ur slightest

touch. Thorough shie lding helps circuits to deve lop

the fin e performan ce. stobie operation an d uniform

response that you expect of a National receiver. We

invite you to stud y the photographs above. They
are p ictures of quality.

NATIONAL COMPANY, INC., MALDEN, MASS.

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MOSI compre he.,',ive of a ll ca pod tor an a lyz e rs. this

An up-to-the-mlnvte version of the famo us Solar

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electronic servic ing .

Ho s esclcstve, patented "Quick -Ched. " circ uit

Ca p a cita nce ra nge - 10 mmf to 800 mf

for qualitative tests C1nd Inte rm itte nt chec ks w ith

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Power Factor range -a to 55 pe rce nt

Capacitance range - 10 mmf 10 2000 mf

" Ma glc Eye " Tub e for bridge balance indication

Power Foctor range - 0 10 55 percent

Simplified Neon -Lamp circuit for visual check of

insulation resistance and electrolytrc leakage
Resistance Bridge - 50 ohm to 2 megohm range

Insulation Resistance ronge -J to 10.000 megohms

Leakage Current - Reads electrolytic leakoge

current d irectly on larg e 4 Y1 " meier

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Col o r-cod e d easy-to-read scctes

Continuously Adjustable 0 -550 volt DC power

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0 550 velt, 3 ronge DC VTYM
10-50 volt, A-C VTVM
100 ohm to 7.5 megohm A-C resistonce b ridge
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